Mac McGrew on the Zapf Civilité: Zapf Civilite is perhaps the latest typeface to be cut as metal type, having been announced in January 1985, although the designer, Hermann Zapf, had made sketches for such a typeface as early as 1940, with further sketches in 1971.
Chancery (officially called ITC Zapf Chancery): Bold, Demi, Italic, Light, Liht Italic, Mediu Italic, Roman. Crown Roman and Crown Italic (Hallmark). Comenius Antiqua ( 1976, Berthold see C792 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002). The Zapf Book, Chancery and International fonts are under the name Zabriskie on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002. Samples: Book Demi, Book Demi Italic, Book Heavy, Book Heavy Italic, Book Medium Italic. Aldus Buchschrift (Linotype, 1954): Italic, Roman. My collaboration with Don Knuth and my font design work, TUGboat 22:1/2 (2001), 26-30. Alphabet Stories (RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, 2008). August Rosenberger (Rochester, NY, 1996). Poetry through Typography (New York, 1993). Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy (Chicago, 1987). Typographic Variations (1964), or Typografische Variationen (1963, Stempel), of which only 500 copies were printed. Only 1000 copies were printed of the original. Feder und Stichel (1949, Trajanus Presse, Frankfurt). 1999 Type Directors Club award for Zapfino (1998), New York. 1996 Wadim Lazursky Award, Academy of Graphic Arts, Moscow. 1987 Robert Hunter Middleton Award, Chicago. 
1985 Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society of Arts, London. 1975 Gold Medal, Museo Bodoniano, Parma. Goudy Award, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. It was acquired by Adobe who used ideas from it in InDesign. In the 1990s, Zapf developed the hz program for kerning and typesetting. He retired in Darmstadt, Germany, but consulted on many font projects until a few years before his death. From 1987 until 1991, he was chairman of Zapf, Burns&Company, New York. Other prominent students include calligrapher/font designer Julian Waters and book designer Jerry Kelly. Students at RIT included Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow, who together created the Lucida type family. From 1977 until 1987, he was vice president of Design Processing, Inc., New York (which he founded with his friends Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin), and professor of Typographic Computer Programs, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. From 1956 until 1973, he was consultant for Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn and Frankfurt. From 1946 until 1956, he was type director at D. He studied typography from 1938 until 1941 in Paul Koch's workshop in Frankfurt. He created alphabets for metal types, photocomposition and digital systems. He is best known for Palatino, Optima, Melior, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino, and ITC Zapf Chancery. Most of his life, he lived in Darmstadt, where he died in 2015. Prolific master calligrapher and type designer, born in Nuremberg in 1918. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on
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