Claude Garamont (c. 1510 –1561), [1] known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris. [2][3] Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type.

Claude Garamond (born 1499, Paris, France—died 1561, Paris) was a French type designer and publisher. Garamond was apprenticed about 1510 to Antoine Augerau and by 1520 was working with the typefounder Geoffroy Tory. His first romans and his grecs du roi were cut for the firm of Robert Estienne.

An apprentice of France’s master typographer, Geofroy Tory, Garamond eventually cut his punches and matrixes and became known by his contemporaries as the foremost type designer of his day. He designed many fonts during his most prolific period, but his work has never been wholly classified.

Born around 1500 in France, Claude Garamond is known for creating the Garamond typeface. Before you fall asleep and dismiss him, take a listen to this. Not only is he one of the leading type designers of all time, he lived during the time when one of the biggest inventions of all time was being invented…the printing press.

French typefounder and craftsman who was the first to specialize in type design, punch cutting and type founding as a service to publishers and printers. From the late 1520s, Garamond was commissioned to cut types for the publishing firm of the scholar-printer Robert Estienne.

Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond, generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime. Garamond-style typefaces are popular to this day and often used for book printing and body text.

Jul 6, 2023 · The tale of Garamond begins with Claude Garamond, a man whose name now graces one of the most enduring typefaces in history. Born amidst the bustling streets of Paris around 1499, Garamond apprenticed under the watchful eye of Antoine Augereau, a renowned printer of the era.

Claude Garamond, foreword to Meditatio pia et religiosa by David Chambellan, 1545. Most likely born in 1499 in Paris, Claude Garamond began an apprenticeship as a book printer in 1510 in the workshop of the humanist, engraver and typographer Antoine Augereau.

EB Garamond is intended to be an excellent, classical, Garamond. It is a community project to create a revival of Claude Garamont’s famous humanist typefaces from the mid-16th century.

An Adobe Originals design, and Adobe’s first historical revival, Adobe Garamond is a digital interpretation of the roman types of Claude Garamond and the italic types of Robert Granjon. Since its release in 1989, Adobe Garamond has become a typographic staple throughout the world of desktop typography and design.