Garamond

American

[gar-uh-mond] / ˈgær əˌmɒnd /

noun

a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.

Garamond British

/ ˈɡærəmɒnd /

noun

a typeface, designed by Claude Garamond (?1480–1561), French type founder

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Etymology

Origin of Garamond

First recorded in 1865–70

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Garamond

Around the same time, Apple adopted the custom version of the serif font ITC Garamond that would later be immortalized in its “Think Different” ads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

This has a larger x-height than, for instance, the popular typeface Garamond.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024

Compared to Sustainable Serif at 12 point size, “for Garamond to have the same size of the letter, it has to be scaled up to 15.2 point size,” Mr Stobberup says.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024

Garamond lived and worked during a transitional period, when old-fashioned black-letter fonts were giving way to more modern Roman typefaces.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

Traveling with him is Bishop Garamond, who has the authority to enforce whatever Durufle wills.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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