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Zapfino Extra™

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Zapfino Extra™ is a Linotype font family with 10 styles.

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Zapfino

Zapfino Extra One

Zapfino Extra Two

Zapfino Extra Three

Zapfino Extra Four

Zapfino Extra Small Caps

Zapfino Extra Ligatures

Zapfino Extra Alternate

Zapfino Extra Ornaments

Zapfino Forte One

Zapfino Forte Alternate

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: June 8th, 2004
Designed by: Hermann Zapf, Akira Kobayashi
Designed when: 2003
Letterform design based on: Linotype Zapfino
Contained in Category: Script
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: alternates, arrow, calligraphy, elegant, hand, invitation, manicule, ornament, script, swash, wedding

Zapfino Extra LT

Today’s digital font technology has allowed renowned font designer and calligrapher Hermann Zapf to realize a dream he first had more than fifty years ago: to create a typeface that would come very close to the freedom and liveliness of beautiful handwriting.

The basic Zapfino font family, released in 1998, consists of four alphabets with many additional stylistic alternates that can be freely mixed together to emulate the variations in handwritten text. In 2003, Zapf completed Zapfino Extra, a large expansion of the Zapfino family. Designed in collaboration with Akira Kobayashi, Zapfino Extra has a cornucopia of 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.

Use Zapfino to produce unusual and graceful advertisements, packaging, and invitations.

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