Garamond font

1 Feb

About this font.

Garamond is a collection of old-style serif types named after Claude Garamond, a sixteenth-century Parisian engraver, commonly spelt as Garamont in his lifetime. Particularly for printing human body text and publications, Garamond-style fonts are desired and occasionally used.

Garamond worked as a punch engraver, a master for stamping matrices, and a mould maker for forged steel sorting. His models were inspired by the influential style and design slash for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius by his punchcutter Francesco Griffo in 1495, and aided in the establishment of exactly what is now known as the old-style serif letter style and design, letters with a more natural and organic construction resembling handwriting with a pen, but with a slightly more structured and upright style.