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- Caslon. William Caslon designed Caslon c. 1725, basing the typeface on 17th-century Dutch type drawings. Caslon is a further evolution of Bembo, with letterforms aligned less with handmade calligraphic forms.
- Garamond. Claude Garamond is credited with the first version of Garamond, designed c. 1532. There is dispute over the actual provenance, as some claim present-day Garamond is based on the work of Jean Jannon’s designs 60 years after Garamond’s forms.
- Bodoni. By the late 18th century, printing technologies, new ink formulas, and better paper provided the ability to print more delicate forms. Giambattista Bodoni designed Bodoni as a more geometric form, with straighter lines and more extreme variations between thick and thin parts of the letters.
- Cooper Black. Cooper Black has a close association with the 1970s; however, Oswald Cooper actually created the typeface in 1921. Cooper designed the Black weight after releasing a larger Cooper Old Style family of fonts.
Sep 30, 2022 · A misattribution in 1825 has led to some believing the typographic works of Jean Jannon to be those of Garamont’s. This caused some foundries to unknowingly remake new Garamond typefaces in the style of Jannon’s type specimen instead of Garamont’s. Nevertheless, it is safe to say that all these Garamonds, be it from Berner or Jannon’s ...
Sep 9, 2011 · The true Garamond types appear in the specimen sheet of the Frankfurt typefoundry of Egenolff-Berner, dated 1592. The type of similar appearance, cut by Jean Jannon about 1621, became the property of the Imprimerie Nationale, achieving worldwide attention about 1900 under the name of caractères de l’Université.
Except that this typeface wasn't by Garamond at all. It was the work of another Frenchman, Jean Jannon (1580-1658), a 17th-century printer and punch-cutter. As a printer he was unremarkable, but as a designer and punch-cutter he was unparalleled, cutting the smallest type ever seen, an italic and roman of a size less than what would now be 5pt.
In 1621 Jannon published a Roman type face and italics, derived from the shapes of Garamond's type faces. As late as the start of the 20th century Jannon's type face was mistakenly called Garamond, because it looked like that type face at first sight.
The matrices of Jannon's Imprimerie nationale type. Jean Jannon (died 20 December 1658) [1] was a French Protestant printer, type designer, punchcutter and typefounder active in Sedan in the seventeenth century. He was a reasonably prolific printer by contemporary standards, printing several hundred books.
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Sep 5, 2012 · Garamond 3 (which we have chosen to use) is actually built off a type design by Jean Jannon in the seventeenth century. According to Alexander Lawson, his designs (which are directly derivative of Garamond’s) are the principal source of most of what see called Garamond .
