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Tyma Garamont

Tyma Garamont™

by T4 Foundry
Individual Styles from $49.00
Complete family of 5 fonts: $229.00
Tyma Garamont Font Family was designed by Bo Berndal and published by T4 Foundry. Tyma Garamont contains 5 styles and family package options.

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About Tyma Garamont Font Family


The TYMA Garamont Roman was inspired by the Berner-Egenolff type sample from the 1560s. The Italic was inspired by a sample from Robert Granjon, also from the 1560s. The name TYMA is short for AB Typmatriser, a Swedish company founded 1948, because the Second World War stopped all import of matrices for Linotype and Intertype typesetting machines. It took until 1951-52 before the import was up to speed again. Until then, Sweden had to fend for itself. TYMA produced all technical equipment needed for type production, including the pantograph to cut the matrices, a complete set for each size and version. The templates for Garamont Roman were initiated by Henry Alm 1948. Bo Berndal was hired the following year, and continued the work by drawing and cutting templates for the rest of Garamont Roman, as well as for the remaining Garamont family. Bo Berndal stayed at TYMA until it went bankrupt in 1952. At that time Bo Berndal had already kick-started his career as type designer by drawing the typeface Reporter for one of the big daily newspapers, Aftonbladet, a version of Cheltenham for another daily, Dagens Nyheter, and copied several old typefaces for other customers. Librarian Sten G. Lindberg at The Royal Library of Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, procured copies of original type samples. Henry Alm started the work in 1948, and Bo Berndal completed it - finally in this OpenType version.

Designers: Bo Berndal

Publisher: T4 Foundry

Foundry: T4 Foundry

Design Owner: T4 Foundry

MyFonts debut: Aug 28, 2007

Tyma Garamont™ is a trademark of T4 Typography AB.

About T4 Foundry

T4 provides Swedish typefaces to the world, offering a wide collection of original display and text type with the occasional twist. Although T4 is a young and modern foundry, the team behind the company has a long history of type design, well before the digital era. Bo Berndal and Torbjörn Olsson are two of T4's prominent type designers. T4 also works with clients that have special needs, and develops logotypes, design programs and in-house typefaces. The sister company A4 designs newspapers.

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