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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. Garamond-style typefaces are popular and particularly often used for book printing and body text.
    Category: Serif
    Classification: Old-style
    Shown here: Adobe Garamond Pro (regular style based on Garamond's work; italic on the work of Robert Granjon)
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    Adobe Garamond, created by Robert Slimbach is one of the most widely used Garamond typefaces due to the fact that it is one of the first digitalized versions. You might have read many novels that were printed in Adobe Garamond. Did you ever notice?
    Some distinctive characteristics in Garamond’s letters are the small eye of the ‘e’ and the bowl of the ‘a’, which has a sharp hook upwards at top left. The ‘M’ is slightly splayed.
    The accents, such as the leg of the “R,” make this font immediately recognizable. There is some debate about who actually invented Garamond, but it is often credited to Robert Estienne in 1530, who used a modern-looking Roman font very similar to it’s style of today. The ITC Garamond was released in 1975 and was meant to be used in text designs.
    With the introduction of OpenType font technology, Adobe Garamond has been reissued as a Pro type family that takes advantage of OpenType’s advanced typographic capabilities. Now this elegant type family can be used with even greater efficiency and precision in OpenType-savvy applications such as Adobe InDesign.
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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. Garamond-style typefaces are popular and particularly often used for book printing and body text. Garamond's types followed the model of an … See more

    Some distinctive characteristics in Garamond's letterforms are an 'e' with a small eye and the bowl of the 'a' which has a sharp turn at top … See more

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    The Renaissance
    • 1470 – first book printed in France, by a Swiss/German team at the Sorbonne, Paris. Early books printed in France generally use type of a See more

    • The Plantin-Moretus Museum, which preserves original Garamond punches and matrices.
    • Garamond's … See more

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    Garamond’s life and his roman type
    Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. Garamond cut … See more

    Based on Garamond's design
    Stempel Garamond
    A 1920s adaptation created by the Stempel Type Foundry and … See more

    This list focuses on notable references to Garamond or his typefaces, not including the extremely large number of books printed in them. See more

    1. ^ However, this is a statement from early in Vervliet's career. In his later career Vervliet came to believe that Garamond's types were based on … See more

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