Herman Zapf has made designed his most successful typeface in 1950 in which he did the sketches on piece of papers when he visited the Santa Croce church in
Palatino typeface construction was done with different types as such as Palatino, Optim, Optima, Michaelangelo, Melior, Zapf Chancery, etc..., alphabets for hot metal composition, then for photo typing, and finally the digital revolution. Zapf was a genius in solving technical problems along side engineers and provided a standard of typographic excellence for the next generation of type designers. Serif is done with the big letters like “A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z”, San serif is done with number “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0.” The bold type is when the letters are big that we could see it, and the Italic is cursive letter form, which, with roman and black letter shapes, has been one of the three major typefaces in the history of Western printing. I could see Palatino’s also have the capital and small letters, the numbering, the handwriting, the dollar sign, the symbol of “[(+.-=,!?,,>>*S” , and the other typefaces in what Zapf done so far.
On pp. 324, I could see Zapf’s has the big capital “E” with bold with grid lines, “Vertical Emphasis.” “Slightly Concave,” Slender E Favors Character Count,” “Non-Uniform Stroke,” “Slim Waisted,” and “Stroke Emphasized Here.” It has too many handwritten on vertical and horizontal on the white graphic card. It also has the page 39 and the titles name on the bottom. On the other picture, I could see it has the rose or flowers of people’s name in that where they died. This is like a funeral cemetery with the typeface of design with black marble. I could see it has the gray sidewalk and the plants. It has too many color graphic design typeface where I could see. On pp. 325, I could see on Zapf’s has the big Capital letter, the symbol letter, the number, and the beige title under the black letter in which say “NEKAZ TH SA QU LANN DE ST.” Zapf has got his idea from his father who had been active in the trades’ union movement who was arrested and confined in Dachau concentration camp for a while. Zapf studied electrical engineering who has wished to find apprenticeship instead. That why Zapf begins to work for an apprentice lithographic retouches.
