Claude Garamont (c. 1510–1561), known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris. Garamond worked...
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Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond, generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime...
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EB Garamond is a free and open source implementation of Claude Garamond’s typeface, Garamond, and the matching Italic, Greek and Cyrillic characters designed...
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the Greek minuscule style which was cut by the French punchcutter Claude Garamond between 1541 and 1550. Arthur Tilley calls the books printed from them...
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Robert Granjon (section Garamond revivals)
widely distributed across Europe. His Greek types, in the style of Claude Garamond's Grecs du roi types, were also very widely used. By 1579, he had moved...
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Eliot's Middlemarch. The novel's character "Mr. Garamond" is a reference to French publisher Claude Garamond. The name of the fictional publishing house (Manuzio)...
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type foundries in 1967. The design of the roman is based on types by Claude Garamond (c. 1480–1561), particularly a specimen printed by the Frankfurt printer...
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more varied design. For example, Adobe Garamond Pro's swash design is based not on the printing of Claude Garamond himself but on designs by his younger...
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point-size name Claude Garamond or Garamont (c. 1510–61) French type designer, for whom the typefaces are named Jacques Nathan Garamond (1910–2001), French...
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based on the Garamond typeface that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592. The roman design was from Claude Garamond and the italic...
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many French printers and punchcutters such as Robert Estienne and Claude Garamond from 1530 onwards, even though the typeface of De Aetna with its original...
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1490) unknown dates Marie Dentière, Genevan theologian (born 1495) Claude Garamond, French publisher (born 1480) Ringler, William A.; Flachmann, Michael...
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History of Western typography (section Garamond)
figure of French typography—Claude Garamond (also Garamont). In 1541 Robert Estienne, printer to the king, helped Garamond obtain commissions to cut the...
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standards of composition". During the Renaissance period in France, Claude Garamond was partially responsible for the adoption of Roman typeface that eventually...
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printed by Robert Estienne Great Primer type (c. 18 pt) by Claude Garamond Gros Canon type by Garamond 1611 book, with arabesque ornament border Large roman...
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Henri Didot Pierre Didot Roger Excoffon Pierre Simon Fournier Claude Garamond (Garamond) Robert Granjon Hector Guimard Nicolas Jenson Christophe Plantin...
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of the best punchcutters of the time such as Claude Garamond and Guillaume Le Bé. Under Estienne, Garamond designed the Greek type used by the King of...
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(1914–1991), French publisher Claude Galopin, French automotive engineer Claude Garache (1929–2023), French artist Claude Garamond (1499–1561), French publisher...
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punchcutters, Robert Granjon began as the apprentice to a jeweller, although Claude Garamond wrote of cutting type since his childhood. Also Christoffel van Dijck...
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Vallae is the first book to use the Roman form of the Garamond typeface cut by Claude Garamond. Paracelsus finishes writing Paragranum and leaves Nuremberg...
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date unknown Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (d. 1539) Claude Garamond, French publisher (d. 1561) Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (d....
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practice were the designs of Aldus Manutius in Venice, and those of Claude Garamond in Paris, who created the influential Grecs du roi typeface in 1541...
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made by printers in Paris from the 1530s onwards by engravers such as Claude Garamond became the main style of type used in Europe, and influenced most successive...
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small capitals were used by Simon de Colines, Robert Estienne and Claude Garamond. Johannes Philippus de Lignamine used small caps in the 1470s, but...
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and Cloister. Also called Aldine, this group is named in homage to Claude Garamond and Aldus Manutius. In general, the Garaldes have finer proportions...
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A 16th-century edition of the New Testament (Gospel of John), printed in a renaissance typeface by Claude Garamond...
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Decorative ITC Galliard Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Old style Garamond Designer: Claude Garamond & Jean Jannon Class: Old style Gentium Designer: Victor Gaultney...
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authorities. Garamond series, based upon the designs of 16th-century type founder, Claude Garamond. Garamond (1919), with T.M. Cleland Garamond Bold (1920)...
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like handwriting. A typeface intended to mimic handwriting, such as Claude Garamond's grecs du roi typeface, will require many alternate characters. In...
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that he was sure the "Garamond" type his company was reviving, supposedly the work of sixteenth-century engraver Claude Garamond, was actually the work...
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