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What is Garamond used for?
Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond, generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime. Garamond-style typefaces are popular and particularly often used for book printing and body text.
What is ITC Garamond?
ITC Garamond is an interpretation of Garamond designed in 1975 by Tony Stan. It was originally conceived as a display face and thus features unusually wide proportions and a taller x-height compared to the more typical Garamond-inspired book faces.
What are the characters in Monotype Garamond font?
Monotype Garamond is a family of two upright weights with complementary Italics. The family also offers small caps, oldstyle figures, and a suite of swash alternate characters. While intended primarily for text composition, Monotype Garamond is distinctive, lively, and remarkably versatile in large sizes.
Which is the heaviest stroke in Monotype Garamond?
In Monotype Garamond, as with other interpretations of the face, character stroke-weight stress is canted, with the heaviest parts at approximately the two and eight o’clock positions. Head serifs (those at the top of character strokes) look like little banners, and baseline serifs tend to be long and slightly cupped, with soft, rounded terminals.
When did Robert Granjon cut the Garamond font?
Italics for Garamond fonts have sometimes been based on those cut by Robert Granjon (1513–1589), who worked for Plantin and whose types are also on the Egenolff-Berner specimen. Linotype has several versions of the Garamond typefaces.
Who was Claude Garamond and what did he do?
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.