Granjon
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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Claude Garamond, Robert Granjon, George William Jones, Chauncey H. Griffith
Designed when: 1928-1930
Contained in Categories: Garalde, Legible
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: none

Granjon

Claude Garamond’s late Texte (16 point) roman was the model used by George W. Jones when he designed this typeface for Linotype & Machinery in 1928. To avoid confusion with the ‘Garamond romans based on Jannon’s seventeenth century work, L&M called the typeface Granjon, after the designer of the italic used as a model, thus creating confusion with the typefaces based on Granjon’s romans, Plantin and Galliard.

Granjon is a little less crisp in cut than either Sabon, Stempel Gararmond or Berthold Garamond, but makes a magnificent and most readable text face, as shown in Reader’s Digest since its founding.

Granjon

The design for Granjon was produced at the English branch of Linotype under the direction of George William Jones and appeared in 1928. This reproduction of a Garamond typeface was based on the typeface sample of the Frankfurt font foundry Egenolff from the year 1592 . The roman characters of the sample were made by Claude Garamond and the italic forms were designed by Robert Granjon. Jones made sure that the Granjon font remained true to the original characters of Garamond and Granjon.

‘Granjon’ is a trademark of Linotype GmbH which may be registered in certain jurisdictions

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