The Alphabets
Zapf Alphabets · Hermann Zapf
The complete retail catalogue of Hermann Zapf's typefaces, spanning humanist serifs, calligraphic scripts and display alphabets across more than thirty families.
About
Zapf Alphabets is the official source for Hermann Zapf's designs, offering everything from the canonical Palatino and Optima to lesser-known faces such as Nofret, Carmina and Renaissance Antiqua. The collection includes script and display types alongside workhorse text families, with Arabic support via Palatino Arabic. Styles range from single-weight display cuts to eight-style text families with full italic accompaniments.
Classification
The collection spans Hermann Zapf's lifetime output across serif, sans-serif, script and display categories, with humanist serif as the dominant tradition represented by Palatino, Aldus, Diotima and related faces.