Garamond
Sign in to saveGaramond 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 to this day and often used for book printing and body text.
Key facts
- Font.name
- Garamond
- Font.image
- GaramondSpecimenA.svg
- Font.style
- Serif
- Font.classifications
- Old-styleGaralde
- Font.creator
- Claude GaramondAlso:Robert GranjonJean Jannon
- Font.shown_here
- Adobe Garamond Pro (roman style based on Garamond's work, italic on the work of Robert Granjon)
- Font.creationdate
- 1549
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Garamond font family - Typography | Microsoft Learn
Typographic info for the Garamond font family
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Encyclopedic overview
46 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- History
- Garamond’s life and his roman type
- Italics
- Greek
- After Garamond's death
- Robert Granjon
- Other French engravers of the sixteenth century
- Jean Jannon
- The fate of Garamond's work
- Revival era
- Timeline
- The Renaissance
- Late Renaissance
- Early modern period
- Eighteenth century
- Early revival era
- Contemporary versions
- Based on Garamond's design
- Stempel Garamond
- URW++ Garamond No. 8
- Granjon
- Sabon
- Berthold Garamond
- Adobe Garamond
- Garamond Premier
- EB Garamond
- Berylium
- WT Garamono
- Based on Jannon's design
- ATF Garamond/Garamond No. 3
- Gallery
- Monotype Garamond
- Garamont
- Simoncini Garamond
- Jannon
- Related fonts
- ITC Garamond
- Cormorant
- Sans-serif designs
- In popular culture
- Printer ink claim
- Gallery
- Notes
- References
- Cited literature
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 to this day and often used for book printing and body text.
Garamond's types followed the model of an influential typeface cut for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius by his punchcutter Francesco Griffo in 1495, and are in what is now called the old-style of serif letter design, letters with a relatively organic structure resembling handwriting with a pen, but with a slightly more structured, upright design.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garamond” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.