ITC Galliard
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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 1st, 2000
Designed by: Matthew Carter
Designed when: 1978
Letterform design based on: ITC Galliard
Contained in Category: Garalde
Design owned by: ITC
Originally created by: ITC
MyFonts Keywords: baroque, book, book text, dinner invitation, elegant, flair, formal, funeral, garalde, magazine, mannered, mannerist, serif, wedding

ITC Galliard

In the late sixteenth century, the alternative to the dignity of Garamond’s romans was Granjon’s exuberance. Matthew Carter’s Galliard roman is a faithful compilation from Granjon’s mature romans. Galliard Italic is taken from a series of Granjon italics not before revived. The boldfaces were developed on the computer from these two; their decisiveness would have pleased Granjon, who never cut a boldface. Lacking models, most boldfaces designed for use with faces from this period are vague in design. The Galliard series was designed for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, who licensed it to ITC for broad sublicense. Punches and matrices for romans and italics survive at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. The typeface is accompanied by a series of type flowers, the Arabesques of Robert Granjon.

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