Pictures

Four panels depicting Zapf's OpenType Palatino, you can just make out the "bitmap" squares used to create the letterforms. Each pixel on the grid depicts a different glyph in this OpenType extended character set.
Here is a detail from the "Z" panel of the OpenType Palatino, you can see more clearly the "bitmap" and the characters that make it up.
Hermann Zapf talks to Bruno Steinert about Zapfino
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