Hermann Zapf–the legendary German designer and calligrapher behind the Optima, Palatino, Zapfino, and Dingbat typefaces–died in his home in Darmstadt, Germany, last Friday at the age of 96. Zapf, who ...
” Among Zapf ’ s credits are the Optima ® and Zapfino ® designs, as well as the ITC Zapf Chancery ® and ITC Zapf Dingbats ® typefaces, which first gained wide distribution as two of the 35 PostScript ...
If you’re an old school Apple fan, you may well remember the Cairo font. Cairo shipped with every version of macOS from 1984 through System 7.1. It was computer history’s first “dingbats” font in ...