Some distinctive characteristics in Garamond's letterforms are an 'e' with a small eye and the bowl of the 'a' which has a sharp turn at top … See more

The Renaissance
• 1470 – first book printed in France, by a Swiss/German team at the Sorbonne, Paris. Early books printed in France generally use type of a blackletter design or roman type with blackletter characteristics. See more

• The Plantin-Moretus Museum, which preserves original Garamond punches and matrices.
• Garamond's Augustine Romaine punches at the … See more

Garamond’s life and his roman type
Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. Garamond cut … See more

Based on Garamond's design
Stempel Garamond
A 1920s adaptation created by the Stempel Type Foundry and … See more

This list focuses on notable references to Garamond or his typefaces, not including the extremely large number of books printed in them. See more

1. ^ However, this is a statement from early in Vervliet's career. In his later career Vervliet came to believe that Garamond's types were based on others cut by a punchcutter named "Constantin"-see below.
2. ^ … See more