Garamond Type

FONT INFO - Garamond

My font is a serif and was designed by Claude Garamont (sometimes Garamond) (1480-1561) in the sixteenth century. The later known font, Adobe Garamond, was created by Robert Slimbach in 1989.   

Claude Garamont is known for his type faces Garamond Original, Grecs du Roi, Granjon and Sabon. As stated before, Garamond is a serif and is classified to be an Old Style font or Garalade.

The current Adobe Garamond family consists of Regular, Italic, Bold, SemiItalic, SemiBold, BoldItalic. It can be used in lowercase, small caps, uppercase, and includes all punctuation and numbers. 

FONT INFORMATION

Old Style: is a serif font with irregularity and slanted ascenders with little contrast in weight 

        Garamond, Caslon, Minion

Transitional: a serif font that has a much greater contrast between light and heavy strokes than Old Style

       Baskerville, Bookman, Clearface

Modern: a serif font with extreme thick and thin contrasts

       Bodoni, Didot, Aster

Slab Serif: a serif font that is mono-weight, not having much contrast in its lines at all

       Rockwell, Courier, Guardian Egyptian

Sans Serif: a font without serifs; this is thin decided into Geometric, Grotesque, Humanistic

       Interstate, Brandon Grotesque, Helvetica 

Stroke Weight is the thickness in lines of a font. It can range from Ultra thin to Ultra Black. Some common ones are Light, Hairline, Regular, Roman

Stress is the diagonal, vertical, or horizontal thick-to-thin transition in the stroke of a letter

Small caps: uppercase characters that are the same height and weight as the surrounding lowercase

Lining Figures: a modern style of numerals where all figures are the same height and rest on the baseline 

Non-aligning figures: unlike lining figures, these figures do not line up on the baseline, having ascenders and descenders 

Ligatures: when two or more letters are formed together to make a single glyph

Type measurement: 1 pica = 1/6 of an inch; 1 point = 1/12 pica = 1/72 inch 

baseline: what the font sits upon, the descenders extend downwards from

x-height: the hight of the lower case font, set by the hight of the "x" 

cap height: the hight of the capital letters in a font 

ascender: what extends above the x hight, typically found on a lower case "h" "k" "d" and so on

descender: what extends below the baseline, a lowercase "p" "j" "g" 

arm/leg: an upper or lower (horizontal or diagonal) stroke that is attached on on end and free on the 

tail: the descender of a Q or short diagonal stroke of an R

eye: the enclosed space in a lowercase "e"

apex: the point at the top of a character such as the upper case A where the left and right strokes meet 

crossbar: the horizontal stroke in characters such as A, H, R, e and f

counter: the partially or fully enclosed space within a character

bowl: a curved stroke which creates an enclosed space within a character (the space is called a counter)

link: the stroke that connects the top and bottom part (bowl and loop) of a two-story lowercase "g"

ear: the small stroke that projects from the top of the lowercase "g" 

loop: the lower portion of the lower case "g"