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Lanston Garamont

Paul Stanley

A question: I have been fiddling around with the Tyopwiki page for Garamond. One thing I tried to do was to divide “Garamonds” into “based on Claude Garamond”, “based on Jean Jannon”. On the authority of Bringhurst and Morison I had LTC Garamont as Goudy out of Jannon, and have so classified it. But P22’s Lanston website (linked above) says it was based on Garamond’s types of 1540 ... which would make it a Claude. I don’t have a decent sample, but my inclination would be to say that the Jannon attribution looks right, as well as being historically plausible.

Have I got it wrong? Or have P22/Lanston? I don’t want to “correct” the Wiki and make it worse.

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paul d hunt

I noticed this discrepancy as well and was going to ask Rich about this... Rich?
for those following along, the type in question:
http://www.p22.com/lanston/products/garamont.html

bieler

In Goudy’s own words:

“I have the four-volume edition of Claudin’s _Monumental Histoire de l’Imprimerie en France au XV et XVI Siecle_ in which the introduction is set in a large letter (about 24-point according to modern measurements) which was attributed to Claude Garamond (1540). I made the drawings from this type.... I suggested the name “Garamont” instead of “Garamond,” as that name would show at once that it was a Monotype face, not to be confused with the faces of othes concerns also following the same source. The name was found by me in _Notice sur les Types Etrangers du Specimen de l’Imprimerie Royale_ about the type “attribuait a Garamont.....”

But thanks for bringing this up. I have to reprint a book I published in 1986 from repros of the metal Garamont, which I no longer have. I didn’t realize this face was part of the P22 Lanst

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