ITC Zapf Chancery is a family of script typefaces designed by the type designer

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and marketed by the International Typeface Corporation. It is one of the three typefaces designed by Zapf that are shipped with computers running Apple's Mac OS. It is one of the core

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fonts.

History

Zapf Chancery was announced in 1979 in six styles from light to bold, the demibold and bold styles being released without italics. It was named after the English name for a Renaissance handwriting style later adapted as an inspiration for early printing.

Variants and similar typefaces

Like many typefaces of the period, imitations of Zapf Chancery were created for specific uses and by competing companies. URW Chancery L by URW (Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber—from the founders' names now retitled URW++) provides a

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-ed clone of the font. An extended version TeX Gyre Chorus is another similar typeface based on the URW Chancery L font. This typeface is released in formats compatible with

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as well as with modern

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compatible systems. A popular lookalike design has been Monotype Corsiva, by Patricia Saunders at the

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. Monotype at the time created or licensed many lookalike typefaces for Microsoft software with identical metrics to popular fonts, including

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and

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, also a Zapf knockoff. Zapf resigned from

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(Association Typographique Internationale) over what he viewed as its hypocritical attitude toward unauthorized copying by prominent ATypI members, specifically Monotype. However, a court case concluded that Corsiva was sufficiently separate as a design to avoid payment of damages, noting that while the fonts were "similar", "the typeface is based upon 15th and 16th Century calligraphic designs from Rome and Venice. In fact, Ms. Saunders' research and work done on creating Corsiva was televised on the

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References

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History

Variants and similar typefaces

See also

References