Garamond: 16th century type, from Paris to the Macintosh
Sixteenth century Paris type, revived many times since.
Garamond
ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
- 48Quartz
- 32Judge my vow
- 24Sphinx of black quartz
- 18Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
- 14Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Preview uses EB Garamond, the closest free match.
In use, with EB Garamond
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Some roads only go one way.
The Long Way Home
Two brothers, one borrowed car and a thousand miles of coast between them and the funeral. In cinemas this spring.
History
- Claude Garamond was a punchcutter in Paris who died in 1561. The first clear record of his work is from 1540.[1]
- EB Garamond, by Georg Duffner and later Octavio Pardo, was released in 2011 under the Open Font License. It follows a 1592 specimen of Garamond’s type.[1]
Who uses it
- Apple Garamond, a condensed ITC Garamond, adopted by Apple in 1984 with the Macintosh and replaced by Myriad from 2002[1]
- The Guardian, which for many years set "The" in its masthead in italic Garamond[1]
- O’Reilly Media, which used ITC Garamond[1]
Sources
The free alternative
EB Garamond is a free revival of the same design, so the preview is close to the real thing.
Body fonts that go with EB Garamond:
- EB GaramondThe way books do it: one serif family, with size and italics for hierarchy.
- Source Sans 3A humanist sans with similar proportions, for interfaces where serif body text feels slow.
- Work SansA modern grotesque body that makes the old-style heading feel deliberate.
Other fonts
- TrajanRoman inscription capitals, and the movie poster font.
- HelveticaThe Swiss sans that ended up on subway signs and airline logos.
- ArialDrawn to the same widths as Helvetica, shipped with Windows.
- FuturaThe 1927 geometric sans of circles and straight lines.
- GothamWide geometric capitals taken from New York building signs.
- ImpactA 1965 Sheffield display face that became the meme font.
- Times New RomanMade for a London newspaper in 1932, then shipped with Windows.
- DidotHigh contrast French type, and the look of fashion magazines.
- BaskervilleA Birmingham printer’s sharper, lighter serif from the 1750s.
- Comic SansDrawn in 1994 for the speech bubbles in Microsoft Bob.
- CourierAn IBM typewriter face that screenplays never gave up.
- RobotoGoogle's Android system font since 2011.