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Claude Garamond 1480–1561

Profiles and typographic contributions of Claude Garamond. Many of the Garamond faces today are not based on his work, but that of a contemporary.

Garamond, Claude

Brief profile at Infoplease.

Jean Jannon (PDF file)

It is many of Jannon's designs which mistakenly were credited to Garamond.

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