This would result any many Jannon-derived Garamond typefaces (Monotype Garamond, Simoncini Garamond, LTC Garamont, Linotype Garamond 3 and ITC Garamond). Though his designs were slightly more irregular, they would later be mistakenly attributed to Garamond by typography expert Beatrice Warde. A complete set of the original Garamond dies and matrices is still on display at the Plantin-Moretus museum even today.Ħ0 years after Garamond's death, a French printer by the name Jean Jannon published a set of typefaces similar to Garamond. After Claude Garamond died in 1561, his punches were sold to the printing office of Christoph Plantin in Antwerp, where they were used for several decades.
He based his romans on those designed by Francesco Griffo, who cut type for the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495.
A highly popular and much-emulated font, Garamond represents a group of old-style serif typefaces named after Claude Garamond.Ĭlaude Garamond was a punchcutter who cut types for the Parisian printer Robert Estienne in the early sixteenth century.
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