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12Rpt / 10Rpt 14Bpt / 12Rpt 1 (1480-1561) (1580-1635)

Garamond was a parisian publisher In 1621, 60 years after Garamond’s death, the who created this and named French printer, Jean Jannon created a typeface it after himself. He was also responsible with similar attributes to Garamond. in the introduction of the apostrophe, the accent and cedilla to the After finishing his typeface, Jannon’s French language. office was raided by the French government. Cardinal Richelieu named his type “Caractère His , which in addition to de I’Université”, and it became the house style Garamond, also included Granjon and . of the Royal Printing Office.

In the 1540’s, Garamond was commissioned Jannon’s typefaces were lost for over 100 years, by French king, Fransis I, to create a Greek and when re-discovered in 1825, were wrongly history typeface for use in a series of books by Robert attributed to Garamond. This mistake was not Estienne. The French court eventually adopted identified until 1927, when his Roman typefaces for their printing, published an article distinguishing the works eventually influencing type across of Garamond from Jannon. western Europe.

After his death in 1561, his works became even more widely used as they were more accessible to printers. This was due to his punches and matrices being sold to Christopher in Antwerp.

18Bpt / 9Rpt 2 3 (1956- )

Was a type designer and calligrapher who developed an interest in graphic design and typefaces while running a small printshop after leaving college. After leaving the printshop and seeking further training, he started to work as a type designer with Autologic Incorporated.

In 1987 Adobe Systems hired him to primarily designer typefaces for digital technology. His history most known works for Adobe were the (1988), Adobe In 2004, Adobe released Garamond (1989), Garamond Premier Pro, a new Minion (1990) and Poetica take on the Garamond designs, (1992) families. which Slimbach had been working on for 15 years, since he first completed Slimbach recently released Brioso, a Adobe Garamond in 1989. based on his own roman script calligraphy.

9Bpt 4 5 1234567890 ear stem bowl Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee counter x height terminal cross bar cross apex bowl eye Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk arm link stem leg anatomy Bgafx Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp aperture counter Unique characteristics that set this typeface apart are the small bowl of the a and the small eye of the e. Also, long extenders and top serifs have a downward slope. Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu

Jean Jannon’s letters are more asymetrical and tail shoulder spine irregular in slope and axis then Garamond’s original work. Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

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pi sign estimated micro sign zu brechen, und einmal, als große Teuerung ins Land ¶ ä Ω kam, konnte er das tägliche Brot nicht mehr schaffen. pilcrow umlaut omega 10Rpt / 24Bpt 26Bpt 10 11 did you know? The large picture books of Dr. Seuss are set in All of the American editions of J.K. Rowling’s a version of Garamond. Harry Potter books are set in twelve- Adobe Garamond, except Harry Potter and King Francis I was a huge drive in the the Order of the Phoenix, which is set in popularity of Garamond’s work. His Majesty 11.5-point type. used it in most of his royal documents. Garamond is considered to be among the most garamolegible and readablen typefaces for use ind print (offline) applications.

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