In 1952 he designed Melior as a newspaper text face, and in 1958 Optima, a remarkable design described by Zapf as a вЂserif-less RomanвЂ™, and by other commentators as a вЂflared sans serifвЂ™. On his return to civilian life, he became art director at the company, and was soon to design his first great typeface, Palatino, its forms inspired by Renaissance lettering, and bearing the unmistakable fluid strokes of the penman. However, his work was interrupted by the second world war and he worked as a cartographer in France, but managed to find time nevertheless to draw a flower alphabet, which Stempel produced after the war. During this period he gained experience of working with hand-press type and producing lettering for musical notation. Inspired by an exhibition of Rudolf KochвЂ™s calligraphy, after his apprenticeship, he began working with Paul Koch in Frankfurt. He joined the Karl Ulrich and Company printing firm, as an apprentice, in 1934. Abandoning his plans to become an electrical engineer, he took up an apprenticeship as a printerвЂ™s retoucher. The punishment extended to his son Hermann was forbidden access to further education. His father had been a trade union official in car factory, but was removed from his post in 1933 by the new Nazi regime. Zapf lost two of his siblings to the epidemic. In addition to the political unrest, there was an epidemic of Spanish flu which is estimated to have killed some 20 million people. On the same day, a workersвЂ™ and soldiersвЂ™ council took political control of the city, Munich and Berlin were in revolution, and the following day Kaiser Wilhelm fled to Holland. Hermann Zapf was born in the turbulent time of 1918 in Nuremberg, Germany.

The font I randomly chose was Melior designed by Herman Zapf in 1952.Дoing Research in Watson Library on the KU Campus!Д¬lassification: Neo-Clarendon, TransitionalДЇamily Members: Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Roman This project involves creating a two part poster diagramming the aspects of our font as well as the history of the designer.

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