... Garmonds. It's actually based on fonts made my Jean Jannon. 2) Yes, Claude Garamont was not as good as the Bentons in optical ...

Forum topic - pablohoney77 - 3 Aug 2004 - 6:00pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments

... in 1946, twenty years after the Beatrice Warde article on Jannon. Perhaps he just didn’t realise that the tracer ball was ... of Claude Garamond (1480-1561) as well as to the work of Jean Jannon (1580-1635 or 1658)”. What are these mysterious relations, ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 10 Feb 2006 - 11:51am - 36 comments - 1 attachment

... Ink & Steel” (Serif #3), Míklos Kis (1685) and Jean Jannon (1620) romans have almost vertical. And in Serif #2, Granjon’s ...

Forum topic - gabrielhl - 19 Dec 2005 - 11:18am - 26 comments - 0 attachments

... to say about this typeface. Something to do with Jean Something to do with Jean Jannon? Although Storm Type’s Jannon is the closest I got, and the ...

Forum topic - Bald Condensed - 162 comments - 0 attachments

... “based on Claude Garamond”, “based on Jean Jannon”. On the authority of Bringhurst and Morison I had LTC Garamont ...

Forum topic - pstanley - 23 May 2005 - 3:54pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments