He also envisioned ITC Zapf Dingbats -aka the most acclaimed dingbats collection that went on to become the foundation for Unicode’s symbols- before emojis were a thing.
This master of type design created numerous typefaces in various alphabets, from Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic all through Cherokee. These digital ideograms, which for many are the hieroglyphics of the 21st century although they are not, were named after the the Japanese for pictograph: e “picture” + moji “character” are much like emoticons, but emoji are actual pictures instead of typography and they wouldn’t have happened if the iconic type designer Hermann Zapf hadn’t invented one of his most popular typefaces ever, back in the seventies. Emojis are dominating the visual language like a (smiley) virus.
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