Claude Garamond is one of the most renowned type designers of all time, and is still recognized to this day for the elegance of his typefaces. Garamond has made an immeasurable impact on typography in modern design.
Claude Garamond was a Parisian designer who lived during the 16th century. Garamond was obviously most well-known for his signature typeface Garamond. However there were other contributions to typography and modern design that are often over shadowed. Garamond as also designed such fonts as Granjon, Grecs du roi and Sabon. Garamond was also credited for introducing the Apostrophe and the accent to the French language.
Garamond’s career started out as an apprentice punch cutter. Punch cutting is the craft of cutting letter punches …show more content…
Using thinner, slanted fonts made it possible to maintain legible text while taking up less space. Garamond was one of the first to design an italic typeface. His designs and contributions to the type style would later become the main influence of many other typefaces using these same characteristics.
Claude Garamond’s contributions and innovations eventually start to become under-appreciated and overlooked. Some bad business venture proved to be very unworthy prior to his passing in 1561. Eventually Garamond’s works became dormant. For nearly two centuries Garamond’s contributions fell out of existence. It was not until the 19th century a French printing office began the revival of Garamond’s contributions through archives.
Garamond’s revival brought upon an upheaval of his designs, but also his techniques, contributions, and innovations to the world of typography. Garamond’s ideals built a foundation of how future type designers would be able to base their concepts off and how to market their
Claude Garamond was a Parisian designer who lived during the 16th century. Garamond was obviously most well-known for his signature typeface Garamond. However there were other contributions to typography and modern design that are often over shadowed. Garamond as also designed such fonts as Granjon, Grecs du roi and Sabon. Garamond was also credited for introducing the Apostrophe and the accent to the French language.
Garamond’s career started out as an apprentice punch cutter. Punch cutting is the craft of cutting letter punches …show more content…
Using thinner, slanted fonts made it possible to maintain legible text while taking up less space. Garamond was one of the first to design an italic typeface. His designs and contributions to the type style would later become the main influence of many other typefaces using these same characteristics.
Claude Garamond’s contributions and innovations eventually start to become under-appreciated and overlooked. Some bad business venture proved to be very unworthy prior to his passing in 1561. Eventually Garamond’s works became dormant. For nearly two centuries Garamond’s contributions fell out of existence. It was not until the 19th century a French printing office began the revival of Garamond’s contributions through archives.
Garamond’s revival brought upon an upheaval of his designs, but also his techniques, contributions, and innovations to the world of typography. Garamond’s ideals built a foundation of how future type designers would be able to base their concepts off and how to market their