| Date: 1979 Designer:
Hermann Zapf
Foundry:
ITC
Location:
New York, USA
Current equivalent:
ITC Zapf Chancery
See also:
URW Zapf Chancery Medium
Technologies:
Photosetting
Postscript
Opentype | | Famous for:
20th century interpretation of Chancery script.
Applications: Religious and Devotional
Ubiquity:
Very widely used
Category: Chancery Italic
Stress: Angled Serifs: Calligraphic |
| Design history:
Hermann Zapf, with a lifetime career as Germany's best-known calligrapher and type designer, designed this calligraphic script to exploit the possibilities of photo typesetting. As a script, Zapf Chancery is based on the style of the 15th century writing master, Cardinal Giambattista Palatino (illustrated at right), but is often overlooked, being available in only one weight and distributed free as a default font with computer operating systems, along with his pictogram font, Zapf Dingbats. Zapf's typefaces have often been cross-licensed and widely distributed, but also illegally pirated. | |  |
