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LTC Garamont

LTC Garamont™

by Lanston Type Company
Individual Styles from $24.95 USD
LTC Garamont Font Family was designed by Claude Garamond, Frederic W. Goudy, Jim Rimmer and published by Lanston Type Company. LTC Garamont contains 15 styles.

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About LTC Garamont Font Family


Frederic Goudy joined Lanston as art advisor in 1920. One of his first initiatives was to design a new version of Garamond based on original Garamond designs of 1540. Goudy intended his free-hand drawings to be cut exactly as he had drawn them and fought with the workmen at Lanston to keep them from “correcting” his work. This new type was called Garamont (an acceptable alternate spelling) to distinguish it from other Garamonds on the market. (The other Garamonds on the market at that time were later confirmed to be the work of Jean Jannon.) In 2001, Jim Rimmer digitized Garamont in two weights. The display weight is based on the actual metal outlines to compensate slightly for the ink gain that occurs with letterpress printing. The text weight is a touch heavier and more appropriate for general offset and digital text work. Digital Garamont is available to the public for the first time in 2005.

Designers: Claude Garamond, Frederic W. Goudy, Jim Rimmer

Publisher: Lanston Type Company

Foundry: Lanston Type Company

Design Owner: Lanston Type Company

MyFonts debut: Mar 29, 2005

LTC Garamont™ is a trademark of P22.

About Lanston Type Company

Lanston Type Co. has roots back to the original Lanston Monotype Company of 1887, founded by Tolbert Lanston when he invented the Monotype casting machine. LTC went through mixed fortunes and was sold several times before Gerald Giampa eventually purchased it. In 2004, P22 Type Foundry acquired LTC. The historically important collection includes the classic designs of Frederic W. Goudy and Sol Hess, along with newer types by such contemporary masters as Jim Rimmer, Dave Farey, and Gerald Giampa.

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