But starting in 1985, Apple’s laser printers included a resident font called Zapf Dingbats—designed by legendary font designer Hermann Zapf—and the world began puzzling over just what the ...

Hermann Zapf, the German font designer who died Sunday, believed his famous Zapf Dingbats font should be used sparingly. Though Zapf Dingbats, which broke big when Apple integrated it into 1986 ...

You may know his name from the fonts Zapfino and Zapf Dingbats, a pre-emoji set of symbols, but he also created Palatino and Optima, plus fonts you may never have heard of like Melior and Marconi ...