Like many typefaces of the period, imitations of Zapf Chancery were created for specific uses and by competing companies.
URW Chancery L by URW (Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber—from the founders' names now retitled URW++) provides a
GPL-ed clone of the font. An extended version
TeX Gyre Chorus is another similar typeface based on the URW Chancery L font. This typeface is released in formats compatible with
LaTeX as well as with modern
OpenType compatible systems. {{Infobox font A popular lookalike design has been
Monotype Corsiva, by Patricia Saunders at the
Monotype Corporation. Monotype at the time created or licensed many lookalike typefaces for Microsoft software with identical metrics to popular fonts, including
Century Gothic,
Arial and
Book Antiqua, also a Zapf knockoff. Zapf resigned from
ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) over what he viewed as its hypocritical attitude toward unauthorized copying by prominent ATypI members, specifically Monotype. However, a court case concluded that Corsiva was sufficiently separate as a design to avoid payment of damages, noting that while the fonts were "similar", "the typeface is based upon 15th and 16th Century calligraphic designs from Rome and Venice. In fact, Ms. Saunders' research and work done on creating Corsiva was televised on the
BBC program, Landmarks." == See also ==