Garamond

Garamond is a group of fonts that are used since the 16th century and were made by Claude Garamond, or build on this.

Nowadays if Garamond is mentioned, so is not a single scripture meant, but rather a group of fonts - the fonts from the Garamond type. Garamond coined the signature image of the roman and italic fonts so effectively that until well into the 17th century repeatedly appeared new alphabets of the same character.

It falls therefore difficult today to distinguish the replicas from the original. The best known example of such a mistake are those shown on the occasion of 1900 held in Paris World Exhibition supposed Originalmatrizen Garamond from the stock of Imprimerie Royale, which later turned out to be the material of Sedaner type founder Jean Jannon and which were used as models for some of the Garamond still available.

Availability

Virtually every major type foundries today launched its version of Garamond in the offer - often by major typographers of our time implemented ( Berthold Garamond: Günter Gerhard Lange; Adobe Garamond: Robert Slimbach, Sabon Antiqua: Jan Tschichold, Sabon Next: Jean -François Porchez, Amsterdam Garamont: F. Benton / TM Cleland, Garamond Classico: Franko Luin, Simoncini Garamond: Francesco Simoncini, ITC Garamond Handtooled: Edward Benguiat ). Some of the fonts offered as Garamond, however, with the model of little more than the name in common (eg, Monotype Garamond, rather based on the works of Jean Jannon, as ITC Garamond, designed by Tony Stan).

At least in German-speaking countries, the Stempel Garamond ( D. Stempel AG, now in the Linotype Library) the reputation of the originalgetreueste Garamond to be her role model was a font sample sheet of Egenolff Berner. The picture shows them on the Adobe version and can particularly in "a" recognize its older form.

From the font Garamond also some free fonts such as JGaramond, Gara or EB Garamond have emerged.

Received original stamp and matrices

Some complete sets of original punches, matrices and casts are preserved and kept in the Antwerp Plantin Moretus Museum and the Paris Imprimerie Nationale.

Classification of Scripture

  • According to DIN 16518 the Garamond belongs to the group II ( French Renaissance Antiqua )
  • After Beinert matrix it belongs to group 1, subgroup French Renaissance Antiqua
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