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ITC Zapf Chancery

ITC Zapf Chancery is a family of script typefaces designed by the German type designer Hermann Zapf and marketed by the International Typeface Corporation.

About ITC Zapf Chancery

ITC Zapf Chancery is a family of script typefaces designed by the German type designer Hermann Zapf 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 also one of the core PostScript fonts.

From the Wikipedia article “ITC Zapf Chancery”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using ITC Zapf Chancery in a book

Script faces belong on covers, titles and short accents. Avoid them for body text and never set them in all caps.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

Sources & data

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