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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. He worked in the tradition now called old-style serif design, which produced ...
Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond, generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime. Garamond-style typefaces are popular and particularly often used for book printing and body text. Garamond's types followed the model of an influential typeface cut for Venetian printer Aldus ...
The svelte French style reached its fullest refinement in the roman types attributed to the best-known figure of French typography—Claude Garamond (also Garamont). In 1541 Robert Estienne, printer to the king, helped Garamond obtain commissions to cut the sequence of Greek fonts for King Francis I of France, known as the "grecs du roi". A ...
Estienne's 1550 edition of the New Testament was typeset with Garamond's Grecs du roi. [1] A manuscript written by Vergecio, whose handwriting was the basis for the type. Les Grecs du roi (lit. "the king's Greeks") are a celebrated and influential Greek alphabet typeface in the Greek minuscule style which was cut by the French punchcutter Claude Garamond between 1541 and 1550.
EB Garamond is a free and open source implementation of Claude Garamond’s typeface, Garamond, and the matching Italic, Greek and Cyrillic characters designed by Robert Granjon. Its name is a shortening of E genolff– B erner Garamond which refers to the fact that the letter forms are taken from the Egenolff–Berner specimen printed in 1592.
ATF Designs. These foundry types were designed and produced by American Type Founders: Abbott Oldstyle (1901, Phinney) Adonic (1930, Willard T. Sniffin) Adscript (1914, Benton) Ad Lib (1961, Freeman Craw) Agency Gothic (1933, Benton), later digitized as Agency FB by Font Bureau. Agency Gothic Open (1934, Benton)
Beatrice Warde spent time investigating the origins of the Garamond design of type, and published the results in The Fleuron in 1926 under the pen-name "Paul Beaujon". [a] Her conclusion that many typefaces previously attributed to Claude Garamond were in fact made ninety years later by Jean Jannon was a lasting contribution to scholarship.
Garamond series, based upon the designs of 16th-century type founder, Claude Garamond. Garamond (1919), with T.M. Cleland; Garamond Bold (1920) Garamond Italic (1923), with T.M. Cleland; Garamond Open (1931) Baskerville Roman + Italic (1915), after the Fry Foundry version. Motto (1915) Sterling (1917) Sterling Cursive (1919) Freehand (1917)