2012.03.04 Hermann Zapf

Hermann Zapf is a one of the most famous font designers around the world and he is from Germany, he was born in 1918 and started work in 1935, he designed a lot of fonts in his life, his designs are very popular and general in the whole world, Apple and Microsoft both use his designs.
His designs do not look like exaggerated, but all of them are very elegant, every arc is fluent, here are some famous designs from Hermann Zapf.

• First is Palatino:

Palatino is a font designed in 1948, it shows a style from the Renaissance, it is a kind of old style serif font.

Then, it has two variations, Palatino Nova and Platino Sans, looks very similar, but their gradients are different.

• Second is Optima:

This is a sans-serif font, but i think it is a font between serif and sans-serif, because it has different stroke size, but still looks like more sans-serif. It designed in 1952, then in 2003, Hermann Zapf redesigned it with Akira Kobayashi, it became Optima Nova.

• Third is a very beautiful hand-writing style font, Zapfino:

I really like Zapfino, look at it first sight, it looks very fluent, but its details show it has many shapes, therefore, this kind of font is mix soft with hard together, amazing!