Zapfino

Zapfino is a font that is designed by Hermann Zapf and named after this. The Zapfino font family comprises a total of 18 typefaces. Zapfino is classified in accordance with DIN 16518 as a script ( group VIII).

Main features

Characteristic of all signs of the Zapfino is the unusual and artistic hand- written presentation. In the footer sections of the Zapfino family of the rich variety of the individual characters and their seamless and flowing combine with one another is striking. A set in Zapfino text appears very lively and varied, almost like the handwriting of a calligrapher. The typefaces from the Zapfino family are very popular for the design of documents on festive occasions, such as wedding invitations, menu cards, etc.

History

Hermann Zapf's first ideas about a font like Zapfino go in the form of sketches already in the 1940s back. But only since 1993 have been conceived dealt at length with the work of a calligraphic sophisticated and richly varied font. In 1998, Zapf in cooperation with the font design and development team of the first edition of Linotype Zapfino in six font styles ( Zapfino One, Two, Three, Four, Ligatures, Ornaments ) ready. In addition to the partly large-scale sweeps of the individual characters and their ligatures impress especially the variety of ornaments.

Zapfino was awarded the Design Prize of the Type Designers Club 1999.

The following is a typeface Zapfino was the operating system Mac OS X from Apple settled as a system font, which helped her to widespread use and a lot of attention.

Inspired by the great success of the first Zapfino family, not least inspired by the technical possibilities of the emerging OpenType format, Zapf made ​​, now already 85 years old, along with Linotype's Type Director Akira Kobayashi from the Zapfino family complete to revise and considerably expand. The result was the twelve typefaces from the Zapfino Extra family ( Zapfino Extra Regular, One, Two, Three, Four, Alternate, Small Caps, Ligatures, Ornaments, Zapfino Extra Forte, Forte One, Forte Alternate).

The Zapfino Extra family uses, inter alia, a mechanism of the OpenType format, called contextual features that allow it to automatically display the same character in a different context by one of several versions of the character. Thus, the total wealth of variants of Zapfino Extra Font Family is typesetting programs that support the use of contextual features that put the user in a simple manner. This includes the use of in Zapfino abundant ligatures.

Since the density of the screen display in Mac OS X system does not 72dpi (as with PCs usual), but 96 dpi is and thus the standard Zapfino fonts are shown on these computers in different basic level, Linotype was prompted, all 12 the Zapfino extra family also bring out as enlarged variant under the name Zapfino extra X.