About ITC Zapf International Heavy
Hermann Zapf's brilliant ITC Zapf International design brings to the art of typography a comfortable typeface, formal enough for widespread use and generously tempered with a calligraphic warmth. One of the most significant characteristics of ITC Zapf International is its graduation of weights. Light and medium are relatively close, and both are equally eloquent for text. Demi is a full two steps heavier than medium, while the heavy is several steps beyond that. Vigor in the italics is achieved more from design than from slant; indeed the degree of slope is held almost to the modest angle of Optima Italic although, the effect appears much greater. |
