Hermann
Typeface named after Hermann Zapf. Inspired by and loosely based on the Ideas he outlines in »Über Alphabete. Gedanken und Anregungen beim Schriftentwurf« (About alphabets; Some marginal notes on type design). Especially the part where he describes traveling to italy and searching for inspiration in antique roman gravestone typefaces.
I then went onto the old cemetery in Darmstadt, where Hermann Zapf himself is buried and looked for inspiration on Tombstones on that graveyard. Afterwards i sketched ideas based on the pictures i took with a broad-nib-pen and ink, digitized those sketches and continued to refinine it.