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The design of Adobe Garamond (1988) combined historical research with contemporary technology. Indeed, the Renaissance typefaces of Claude Garamond have been revived for reproduction by various technologies--from metal to digital--during the twentieth century. Each of these revivals was based on sources several generations removed from Garamond's own characters. Designer Robert Slimbach created pencil drawings based on proofs of type cast from Garamond's sixteenth-century molds. He then electronically scanned and redrew the letterforms. Adobe Garamond preserves the humanistic, handmade character of the historic font within the digital realm.
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Adobe Garamond, typeface, 1988 |