The great calligraphy and type design master Hermann Zapf passed away yesterday, on 4 June 2015, at the age of 96.
Hermann has been a defining force behind type design and typography in the 20th century.
His breathtaking calligraphic skills have impressed me first when I saw them in books, but impressed me even more when, ten years ago, at the age of 86, he casually took out his pencil and inscribed a few books for me. His typeface designs were simply beautiful, perhaps most importantly Optima, which has created an unmatched class of its own and stood for decades as an penultimate expression of letterform elegance.
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