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{{Infobox font | image = Image:Garamond font.png | style = Serif | date = 16th century | creator = Claude Garamond | foundry = various | sample = Image:Garmond sample.png |}}
Image:Many types of garamond.gif There are several typefaces called Garamond. Some are based on the work of the influential 16th century French type designer Claude Garamond. The “original” Garamond belongs to the family of “Renaissance” or “old style” serif typefaces. The font that most resembles the original Garamond is not named Garamond, but Granjon, to differentiate them from the many other kinds of Garamonds.
Other typefaces such as American Garamond or Elegant Garamond are not, typically, based on Garamond’s work. Instead, they build on the rather different typefaces of Jean Jannon. Italic typefaces called “Garamond” are almost never based on Garamond’s own italics; usually they are derived from typefaces by Robert Granjon, a younger colleague of Garamond. He also designed a coordinated series of italic typefaces. Though less influential, they also clearly belong to a typeface related to Garamond. They also have notably graceful forms.
The widely used Adobe Garamond Pro was designed by Robert Slimbach in 1989. It is the type used by the Harry Potter books.
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Sample of Garamond
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is written using a font not listed here. The alphabet and characters shown below that are in Adobe Garamond Pro.
See also
External links
- http://www.typenow.net/i.htm (see iGaramond)
- http://www.fryfonts.com/free-font/124 (the Apple Version of Garamond)
- Garamond font information (Microsoft typography)
- adobe.com sales page for Garamond Premier Pro, a typeface family by Adobe Systems based on the Garamond tradition, in OpenType format, published in 2005.
- adobe.com sales page for Adobe Garamond Pro, a typeface family by Adobe Systems, a conversion of Adobe Garamond from Type 1 to OpenType format and extension of features and glyph complement, published in 2000.
- adobe.com sales page for Adobe Garamond, a typeface family by Adobe Systems based on the Garamond tradition, in Type 1 format, published in 1989.
References
- Template:Cite book This scholarly monograph was published by Adobe to describe the origins of their newly-published Garamond Premier Pro typeface. It contains two substantial essays, plus examples of the typeface in use with a variety of texts in English, Greek, and Russian. The essays are:
- Template:Cite book A survey of Claude Garamond’s career and typefaces, of Robert Granjon’s italic types which were combined with Garamond roman types, and a brief summary of subsequent revivals through Garamond Premier Pro.
- Template:Cite book The designer of Garamond Premier Pro explains the sources for his design ideas, and the design principles he followed in this typeface family.de:Garamond (Schriftart)