Garamond | Oleh Thirza Abigail (00000047959) – Kelas J, Harry Mores, S.Ds, M.Ds

Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond, generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime. Garamond-style typefaces are popular and particularly often used for book printing and body text.

Some distinctive characteristics in Garamond’s letterforms are an ‘e’ with a small eye and the bowl of the ‘a’ which has a sharp turn at top left. Other general features are limited but clear stroke contrast and capital letters on the model of Roman square capitals. The ‘M’ is slightly splayed with outward-facing serifs at the top and the leg of the ‘R’ extends outwards from the letter. The x-height is low, especially at larger sizes, making the capitals large relative to the lower case, while the top serifs on the ascenders of letters like ‘d’ have a downward slope and ride above the cap height. The axis of letters like the ‘o’ is diagonal and the bottom right of the italic ‘h’ bends inwards.