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Claude Garamont (c. 1510 –1561), [1] known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris. [2][3] Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type.
Claude Garamond (born 1499, Paris, France—died 1561, Paris) was a French type designer and publisher. Garamond was apprenticed about 1510 to Antoine Augerau and by 1520 was working with the typefounder Geoffroy Tory. His first romans and his grecs du roi were cut for the firm of Robert Estienne.
Born around 1500 in France, Claude Garamond is known for creating the Garamond typeface. Before you fall asleep and dismiss him, take a listen to this. Not only is he one of the leading type designers of all time, he lived during the time when one of the biggest inventions of all time was being invented…the printing press.
Claude Garamond was a French type designer and punchcutter in the 16th century, renowned for creating one of the first modern typefaces. His work significantly influenced the development of typography during the Renaissance, emphasizing clarity and elegance in printed text.
An apprentice of France’s master typographer Geofroy Tory, Garamond eventually cut his punches and matrixes and became known by his contemporaries as the foremost type designer of his day. He designed many fonts during his most prolific period, but his work has never been wholly classified.
Garamond is not just one typeface but, in fact, a group of them, whose origins trace back to 16th-century France, where they were created by a man named Claude Garamond.
The tale of Garamond begins with Claude Garamond, a man whose name now graces one of the most enduring typefaces in history. Born amidst the bustling streets of Paris around 1499, Garamond apprenticed under the watchful eye of Antoine Augereau, a renowned printer of the era.
French typefounder and craftsman who was the first to specialize in type design, punch cutting and type founding as a service to publishers and printers. From the late 1520s, Garamond was commissioned to cut types for the publishing firm of the scholar-printer Robert Estienne.
Garamond is a classic typeface that communicates authority and academia. Employed historically as a book typeface, Garamond reads as “literature” without appearing overly decorative.
Claude Garamond, foreword to Meditatio pia et religiosa by David Chambellan, 1545. Most likely born in 1499 in Paris, Claude Garamond began an apprenticeship as a book printer in 1510 in the workshop of the humanist, engraver and typographer Antoine Augereau.