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Typography Tuesday

This week we present a selection of designs by our favorite type designer and calligrapherHermann Zapf (1918-2015) from the 1987 publication Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy published in Chicago by the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) in memory of the great Scottish-American type designer and long-time design director for the Ludlow Typograph Company Robert Hunter Middleton (1898-1985), who provided the original idea for the book. Since 1948, Hermann Zapf designed over 175 alphabets for hand-composition, for the Linotype typesetting machine, and for photocomposition and digital laser systems. The book brings together selected articles and lectures on calligraphy and contemporary developments in type design by Zapf, with illustrations, some presented for the first time, bibliographical notes and a complete list of Zapf’s typefaces.

Although Zapf spent the majority of his career in Germany, he was an honorary member of STA and was a professor of typographic computer programming, the first such position of its kind in the world, at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from 1977-1987. Click on the images for details on the designs.

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