Zapf Chancery The Office Software In Conjunction

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Zapf Chancery The Office Software In Conjunction

In 1976 he was invited to become a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, specialising in computerised typesetting programs, and while there he worked on type composition software in conjunction with his students, as well as with both IBM and Xerox.

He went on to give an inspired lecture on the different angles that a calligrapher uses when holding a pen, and how strokes differ between calligraphy and typography all illustrated, not with slides, but with impeccably executed chalk drawings.

Zapf, who has died aged 96, showed off these sumptuous drawing skills on many occasions over his long life, not always with the calligraphers usual tools of nibbed pen or fine brush.

He could draw a faultless line just as easily with chalk on a board or with a ballpoint on a school pad, and in 1960 was chosen to write out the Preamble of the Charter of the United Nations, held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.

He also brought his calligraphic talent to the design of a string of typefaces over seven decades, a period in which the industry moved rapidly from hot metal typesetting through photocomposition to digitisation.

Zapf is one of the few people who designed letters for all three methods.

Immediately after the second world war, Frankfurt became the centre of West Germanys book trade.

Its type foundries needed new Roman types since blackletter, the traditional script once regarded by the Nazis as quintessentially German, had been replaced by the Roman alphabet as the standard in 1941.

Zapf worked for the Stempel foundry and in 1949 he designed the Palatino typeface for it.

Palatino was quite unlike anything produced in pre-war Germany.

It was clearly influenced by Italian letterforms, even though at that stage Zapf had never been to Italy.

It has gone on to become one of the worlds most widely used typefaces.

Zapf was born in Nuremberg three days before the end of fighting in the first world war.

In 1933, the year he left school, his father lost his job in a car factory because of his trade union activities.

Zapf was thereby prevented from studying engineering, and instead became an apprentice retoucher in a printing firm.

In 1938, his apprenticeship over, Zapf was introduced to the Stempel foundry, and began work on his first typeface, a blackletter called Gilgenhart.

Then, in April 1939, he was called up and sent to a work unit reinforcing the Siegfried Line.

He was found medically unfit for hard labour and given an office job, writing out records and certificates in blackletter.

In the decade that followed the success of Palatino, Zapf designed more than a dozen typefaces for Stempel and Linotype.

This culminated in 1958 with the launch of Optima, which had slight swellings at the end of its letterforms rather than serifs (cross strokes).

Optima divides opinion in the typographic world, but few would deny its sculptural quality, perhaps seen to best effect in the Vietnam memorial in Washington, completed in 1982, for which it was chosen as the typeface for the names of the dead.

Hermann Zapf was chosen to write out the Preamble of the Charter of the United Nations.

Photograph: Linotype By the 1960s Zapf was a frequent visitor to the US.