http://www.fontshop.de/fontblog/hermann-zapf-1918-2015/

Serif in Peace. 

Danke für alles, besonders für Palatino.

Zum Tod des Schrift-Connaisseurs Hermann Zapf

(ganzen Artikel lesen, dann erklärt sich auch der etwas irritierende Titel)

Ulf Erdmann Ziegler auch in der Süddeutschen Zeitung.

Ich habe es von der ATypI erfahren, wo Cynthia Betty uns verständigt hat.

 

Jerry Kelly of the The Kelly-Winterton Press reports on his Kickstarter
site that Hermann Zapf has passed away at the age of 96:

"It is with deep sorrow that we report that Hermann Zapf passed away
peacefully at home last night, at the age of 96. We have lost a great
artist whose work touched hundreds of millions – if not billions – of
people around the world. Edward Johnston, the father of modern calligraphy
wrote about a hundred years ago that “Our aim should be, I think, to make
letters live... that men themselves may have more life.” Surely no one has
done this to a higher level, and reached more people with their beautiful
letters, than Hermann Zapf."

Jerry has been raising funds to publish a facsimile of Zapf's wartime
sketchbooks, you can check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1307403978/the-hermann-zapf-sketchbook-project/description

My best,

Cynthia

Sumner Stone — In Memoriam: Hermann Zapf