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Last edited November 04, 2015

There are many interpretations of Garamond available from many different foundries. Here is an overview of all the most complete families. Please let us know if you don't find what you need.

See also Serif: Garalde.

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fiddlesticks
Don’t treat me like a potato

Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495. Garamond refined his romans in later versions, adding his own concepts as he developed his skills as a punchcutter. After his death in 1561, the Garamond punches... Read More

rocket
fiddlesticks
Let us do the birds friend

Granjon™ was designed by George W. Jones for the English branch of Linotype in 1928. The bold weight was added by American Chauncey H. Griffith in 1930. For his model, Jones used a type cut by Claude Garamond that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592. Because several other Garamonds were on the market in the 1920s, Jones decided to name his type Granjon. Many of the... Read More

vortex
fiddlesticks
Survivors will be shot again

Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495. Garamond refined his romans in later versions, adding his own concepts as he developed his skills as a punchcutter. After his death in 1561, the Garamond punches... Read More

grapes
japanophilia
Freak out and drink all the liquor

Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495. Garamond refined his romans in later versions, adding his own concepts as he developed his skills as a punchcutter. After his death in 1561, the Garamond punches... Read More

chalet
fiddlesticks
Poisonous and evil rubbish

Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495. Garamond refined his romans in later versions, adding his own concepts as he developed his skills as a punchcutter. After his death in 1561, the Garamond punches... Read More

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hypothenuses
Beware the hobby that eats

The design of Sabon Next™ by Jean François Porchez, a revival of a revival, was a double challenge: to try to discern Jan Tschichold´s own schema for the original Sabon, and to interpret the complexity of a design originally made in two versions for different typecasting systems. The first was designed for use on Linotype and Monotype machines, and the second for Stempel hand composition.... Read More

chalet
guitarfishes
Palace explodes diced chicken

Jan Tschichold designed Sabon™ in 1964, and it was produced jointly by three foundries: D. Stempel AG, Linotype and Monotype. This was in response to a request from German master printers to make a font family that was the same design for the three metal type technologies of the time: foundry type for hand composition, linecasting, and single-type machine composition. Tschichold turned to the... Read More

brandy
wunderkinder
Beware of geeks bearing formulas

Sabon was designed by Jan Tschichold and released in 1967. Sabon was created in response to the specific needs of a group of German printers who wanted a typeface that would be identical in form when produced by three different metal-casting technologies. Named after Jacques Sabon, a sixteenth century typefounder whose widow married another typefounder, Konrad Berner, who is credited with... Read More

Claude Garamond and Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1499
Claude Garamond and Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1499
Jean Jannon, Morris Fuller Benton and Thomas Maitland Cleland
Bitstream
Claude Garamond, Francesco Simoncini and W. Bilz
Elsner+Flake 1958
Francesco Simoncini, Jean Jannon and W. Bilz
Bitstream
Claude Garamond and George W. Jones
Linotype 1499
Claude Garamond, George W. Jones, Chauncey H. Griffith and Robert Granjon
Bitstream
Claude Garamond and D. Stempel AG
Linotype 1499
Claude Garamond
Bitstream
Jean Jannon
Elsner+Flake 1671
Claude Garamond and Tony Stan
ITC 1499
Claude Garamond and Tony Stan
ITC 1499

Linotype
Claude Garamond, Jan Tschichold and Akaki Razmadze
Linotype 1499
Claude Garamond and Jan Tschichold
Monotype 1499
Claude Garamond and Jan Tschichold
Bitstream