Information
With its delicate swashes, it is hard to imagine that Zapfino revolutionized the world of digital typesetting. This typeface realised Hermann’s dream to recreate handwriting on the computer. The basic Zapfino font family, released in 1998, consists of four alphabets with many additional stylistic alternates that allows to emulate the variations in handwritten text. In collaboration with Akira Kobayashi, Hermann completed Zapfino Extra, a large expansion of the Zapfino family with plenty new characters. It includes exuberant hyper- flourishes, elegant small caps, dozens of ornaments, more alternates and ligatures, index characters, and a very useful “forte” (bold) version.
Technical Information
- Designer Hermann Zapf, Akira Kobayashi
- Styles 6
- Glyph Count1677
- Released1998
OpenType Features
c2sc calt ccmp clig cpsp dlig dnom frac kern liga locl numr onum ordn ornm salt sinf smcp ss01 ss02 ss03 ss04 ss05 ss06 ss07 ss08 ss09 ss10 subs sups swsh
Supported languages
Afar, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asu, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, Taita, German, Lower Sorbian, Jola-Fonyi, Embu, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, Filipino, Faroese, French, Friulian, Western Frisian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Swiss German, Gusii, Manx, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Ido, Icelandic, Italian, Lojban, Machame, Jju, Kamba, Makonde, Kabuverdianu, Kikuyu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Shambala, Colognian, Kurdish, Cornish, Latin, Luxembourgish, Ganda, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Luo, Luyia, Latvian, Meru, Morisyen, Malagasy, Makhuwa-Meetto, Maori, Mohawk, Malay, Maltese, Muscogee, Norwegian Bokmål, North Ndebele, Low German, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, South Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Kʼicheʼ, Romansh, Rundi, Romanian, Rombo, Kinyarwanda, Rwa, Samburu, Sangu, Sardinian, Northern Sami, Sena, Sango, Sidamo, Slovak, Slovenian, Southern Sami, Lule Sami, Inari Sami, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Swati, Saho, Southern Sotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Silesian, Teso, Turkmen, Tswana, Turkish, Taroko, Tsonga, Unknown language, Volapük, Vunjo, Walloon, Walser, Warlpiri, Wolof, Xhosa, Soga, Zulu
Buying Guide
We offer the possibility of buying individual styles as well as complete families, with a link to the official Monotype Website.
Zapfino Extra One
Zapfino Extra Two
Zapfino Extra Three
Zapfino Extra Four
Zapfino Extra Ornaments
Zapfino Extra Regular
Exuberant
hyper-flourishes