The Great Zapfino is a circus performer whose act is called "The Leap For Life." When the book opens, he's climbing up a ladder, preparing to jump off a high-dive onto a trampoline. But when the ...

And what is your favorite font’s beard brother ... Flamboyant, flashy Zapfino would obviously wax up its Dali before making an appearance anywhere. Helvetica Neue is the typographic avatar ...

For procrastinating authors, font diddling turns out to be a delicious way to waste time. (Hmm ... what’ll it be today? Palatino? Baskerville Semibold? Dampfplatz Solid with Zapfino caps ...

You may know his name from the fonts Zapfino and Zapf Dingbats, a pre-emoji set of symbols, but he also created Palatino and Optima, plus fonts you may never have heard of like Melior and Marconi ...

The creator of approximately 200 fonts and typefaces, he is best known for his works Optima, Palatino, Zapfino, and Zapf Dingbats. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1918, Zapf educated himself on ...

or Zapfino: although Metaflop can automate a lot of the drudgery of font creation, it can’t emulate the custom ligatures and small, barely expressible human touches that make a typeface truly ...