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Garamond 3™ from Linotype Garamond 3™ is a Linotype font family with 8 styles. Click the Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Jean Jannon, Morris Fuller Benton, Thomas Maitland Cleland
Designed when: 1936
Letterform design based on: Garamond No. 3
Contained in Category: Garalde
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: book, book text, conservative, elegant, formal, garalde, humanist, Jannon, personal text, serif
Garamond #3
Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in the development of the Old Face font Garamond. What is accepted is the influence this font had on other typeface developments from the time of its creation to the present. Garamond, or Garamont, is related to the alphabet of Claude Garamond (1480-1561) as well as to the work of Jean Jannon (1580–1635 or 1658), much of which was attributed to Garamond. In comparison to the earlier Italian font forms, Garamond has finer serifs and a generally more elegant image.
The Garamond of Jean Jannon was introduced at the Paris World’s Fair in 1900 as Original Garamond, whereafter many font foundries began to cast similar types. Morris F. Benton’s Garamond appeared in 1936 and is based on the forms of Jean Jannon, which already displayed characteristics of the Transitional style.
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