Zapf Dingbats

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Credits

Designer(s)
Hermann Zapf
Foundry(ies)
International Typeface Corporation
Release Year
1978
Country of Origin
Germany
Classification
Non-alphanumeric, Dingbats
Original Format
Digital
Distributor(s)
Linotype, Ascender Corporation
Tags
arrows, dingbat

Background

Consisting mostly of arrows and stars, Zapf Dingbats is doomed to live a life of servitude to bullet points in MS Word and Powerpoint.

In 1994 David Carson printed an interview with Bryan Ferry in Ray Gun magazine entirely in Zapf DIngbats- as a reminder that Graphic Designers are merely artists in sheeps’ clothing.

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