Paolo Giovio / Historium svi temporis tomvs primvs.

Claude Garamond

Paolo Giovio / Historium svi temporis tomvs primvs.

Paris

Michael Vascosan

1553

Folio

Claude Garamond (sometimes known as Garamont) apprenticed with Antoine Angereau (c. 1500–1534). His first roman types began to appear in the 1530s. There was a long and fruitful relationship between Garamond and the Estienne family, though Garamond produced type for many other printers too, including Plantin and Michel Vascosan. Garamond brought exceptional elegance and refinement to the model. Garamond worked primarily as one of the first independent type designers, doing little printing and publishing on his own account.

In the twentieth century, there were probably more types called “Garamond” than any other name.