Hermann Zapf, 1918-2015

“Hermann Zapf, whose calling in life — ‘to create beautiful letters,’ as one of his students put it — found expression in lush, steady-handed calligraphy and in subtly inventive typefaces that have brought words to readers on paper, on signposts, on monuments and on computer screens for more than half a century, died on Thursday at his home in Darmstadt, Germany. He was 96.”