Pre-digital: Hermann Zapf (‘Palatino’ released 1950) German designer Hermann Zapf emerged as a leading type designer during the manifestation of the German and Swiss International Typographic Style around the 1950s. This movement saw unity, asymmetry, and mathematically constructed grids as central to its vision. Zapf began as an apprentice photo retoucher at the age of 16, before studying calligraphy. It wasn’t until four years later that he entered Koch’s printing firm, becoming a...