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ATF Garamond

ATF® Garamond

by ATF Collection
Individual Styles from $59.00 USD
Complete family of 18 fonts: $499.00 USD
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ATF Garamond Font Family was designed by Mark van Bronkhorst, Morris Fuller Benton, Thomas Maitland Cleland, Igino Marini, Ben Kiel and published by ATF Collection. ATF Garamond contains 18 styles and family package options.

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ATF Garamond Family

 18 fonts

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Per Style:

$27.72 USD

Pack of 18 styles:

$499.00 USD

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ATF Garamond Text Set

 6 fonts

Per Style:

$38.16 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$229.00 USD

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ATF Garamond SubHead Set

 6 fonts

Per Style:

$38.16 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$229.00 USD

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ATF Garamond Micro Set

 6 fonts

Per Style:

$38.16 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$229.00 USD

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About ATF Garamond Font Family

The Garamond family tree has many branches. There are probably more different typefaces bearing the name Garamond than the name of any other type designer. Not only did the punchcutter Claude Garamond set a standard for elegance and excellence in type founding in 16th-century Paris, but a successor, Jean Jannon, some eighty years later, cut typefaces inspired by Garamond that later came to bear Garamond’s name. Revivals of both designs have been popular and various over the course of the last 100 years. When ATF Garamond was designed in 1917, it was one of the first revivals of a truly classic typeface. Based on Jannon’s types, which had been preserved in the French Imprimerie Nationale as the “caractères de l’Université,” ATF Garamond brought distinctive elegance and liveliness to text type for books and display type for advertising. It was both the inspiration and the model for many of the later “Garamond” revivals, notably Linotype’s very popular Garamond No. 3. ATF Garamond was released ca. 1918, first in Roman and Italic, drawn by Morris Fuller Benton, the head of the American Type Founders design department. In 1922, Thomas M. Cleland designed a set of swash italics and ornaments for the typeface. The Bold and Bold Italic were released in 1920 and 1923, respectively. The new digital ATF Garamond expands upon this legacy, while bringing back some of the robustness of metal type and letterpress printing that is sometimes lost in digital adaptations. The graceful, almost lacy form of some of the letters is complemented by a solid, sturdy outline that holds up in text even at small sizes. The 18 fonts comprise three optical sizes (Subhead, Text, Micro) and three weights, including a new Medium weight that did not exist in metal. ATF Garamond also includes unusual alternates and swash characters from the original metal typeface. The character of ATF Garamond is lively, reflecting the spirit of the French Renaissance as interpreted in the 1920s. Its Roman has more verve than later old-style faces like Caslon, and its Italic is outright sprightly, yet remarkably readable.

Designers: Mark van Bronkhorst, Morris Fuller Benton, Thomas Maitland Cleland, Igino Marini, Ben Kiel

Publisher: ATF Collection

Foundry: ATF Collection

Design Owner: ATF Collection

MyFonts debut: Oct 2, 2016

ATF® Garamond is a trademark of TypoBrand LLC registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

About ATF Collection

The typefaces originally produced by the American Type Founders Company are well known and well loved. From the familiar sans serif letterforms seen virtually everywhere to thoughtful revivals of historic text faces, ATF's type designs have inspired countless fonts by other foundries. The American Type Founders Collection builds on the ATF legacy of originality, creativity, and innovation, introducing new interpretations of classic ATF typefaces. Fonts in the ATF Collection are developed with the needs of contemporary type users in mind. Attention to aesthetics and usability are paramount; ATF designer font families build on their predecessors, offering more weights and widths, and the robustly expanded character sets and typographic features made possible with digital font technology. The ATF Collection brings the same visual richness to page and screen that handset type once brought to the printed page.

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