
Like: Adobe Garamond, Garamond Premier, Stempel Garamond, URW++ Garamond No.

You can still find the originals in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.īased on Garamond’s design, many versions of this font have been created. It was then sold to Christoph Plantin’s Antwerp printing office. Initially, it was based on Francesco Griffo’s designs, which he had cut for Aldus Manutius in 1495. Since the rise of popularity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many modern revivals have developed in the Garamond style Jean Jannon and Robert Granjon were among them. The modern Garamond is a close relative of the original, informal appearance. The font is more readable than other fonts because of its square shape and thicker lines. It was created after the invention of movable type printing. This font is adapted from a font called D’Aetna. It is one of the most popular fonts in the world. The Garamond font is a classic serif typeface, first designed by Claude Garamond for the Parisian printer Robert Estienne in the sixteenth century.
