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Sign in. Mule Online Training. Simply desire to say your article is as astounding. The clarity in your post is just great and i can assume you're an expert on this subject. Fine with your permission let me to grab your feed to keep updated with forthcoming post. Thanks a million and please continue the gratifying work. The Origin of Garamond The Garamond typeface we know today has many variations, designed by different font designers inspired by the original punch cuts designed By Claude Garamond in the 16th Century.

Contemporary Garamond fonts Designer or not you will have encountered one of the contemporary Garamond fonts in many places. By Orana Velarde Share:. Not in use It looks like you haven't used this font in a while. Adobe Garamond Designed by Robert Slimbach. From Adobe Originals. All Fonts Active. Add to Web Project. Sample Text. Fonts like Adobe Garamond. Adobe Garamond font pairings. Any advice would be appreciated. Is there a systematic discussion anywhere of the different versions?

The same package is available as a "gift" when you purchase the Adobe Creative Suite. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft. I've had trouble with some Adobe Garamonds. They have horrible kerning pairs. If you use Adobe's, set some pages first and make sure you like it before you do the whole book. What's the general purpose of your text? What would be your usual font size? How much typesetting experience do you have? A good looking text requires much more than chosing the "best" font.

Will you need small caps, old-style figures, polytonic Greek characters etc.? This graffiti was clearly created with a brush. Photo by virtusincertus. Only this time, the sign was chiseled in stone — and you can see how this has influenced the letters: all of the strokes of the letters are uniform in width , and to make the ends of those strokes looks nice — serifs were added.

You can see little spur serifs from where the chisel was applied perpendicular to the stroke of each of these letters. Then we moved on to lead and wood-cut printing, which first imitated work done by scribes with pens. The lettering on the column of Trajan were brushed on, then chiseled.

Photo by Silver Tusk. Once actual drawing tools were a smaller part of the design equation, typographers started to get more theoretical with their designs — creating constraints of their own — fonts like Bodoni are geometrically rationalized, as they were created in a medium cast metal with relatively few restrictions. In modern web typography, we still have the restriction that the letters of our alphabet take certain forms , but many restrictions have been removed.

Rather than only having a couple of fonts available in our typecases, there are thousands. So, what makes a font bad for the web?