Zapfino
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- typeface
- Designed by
- Hermann Zapf
- Image
- Zapfino.png
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- Commons category
- Zapfino
- inception
- 1944-00-00
- type foundry
- Mergenthaler Linotype Company
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Availability
- Zapfino Extra (2003)
- Zapfino Extra W1G (2010)
- Zapfino Extra Cyrillic One (2010)
- Zapfino Extra X (2003)
- Zapfino Arabic (2014–2015)
- Atheism symbol
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|variant glyphs representing the character e ([[allographs of e)]]
Zapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed for Linotype by typeface designer Hermann Zapf in 1998. It is based on an alphabet Zapf originally penned in 1944. As a font, it makes extensive use of ligatures and character variations (for example, the lower case letter d has nine variations).
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