font_designer: Jean Jannon

ITC Garamond

ITC Garamond font

Drawn by Tony Stan, ITC Garamond was first released in 1975 in Book and Ultra weights only. These were intended as display faces to complement existing text designs from other foundries. (In fact, many...

Trop Magus

Trop Magus font

Trop Magus is a rugged typeface following in the tradition of Ramon Llull and Jean Jannon. Llull’s illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages inspired many later Alchemical texts in the Renaissance. And it was...

Simoncini Garamond

Simoncini Garamond font

Another Garamond in the Jannon tradition, this one designed by Francesco Simoncini and W. Bilz.

Garamond Classico

Garamond Classico font

Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in the development of the Old Face font Garamond. What is accepted is the influence this font had on other typeface developments from the...