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Hz-program is a typographic composition computer program, created by legendary German typeface designer Hermann Zapf. The goal of this program was "to produce was the perfect grey type area without the rivers and holes of too-wide word spacing."

History

In a famous essay, ..., Zapf explains the history of hz-program, and claims to have reached the same level of compostions reached by Gutemberg: this added to the legend...