Posts Tagged ‘Hermann Zapf’

Designing Type Is Still an Art, Computerization Notwithstanding

Now there is a computer program said to be capable of producing a typeface, the implication being that the complexities of type design are accessible through computer programming. To back up that claim, the promoters of the system, Metafont, availed upon Hermann Zapf, best known of present-day type designers, for comment. Zapf is quoted to […]