Adobe Garamond

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An Adobe Originals design, and Adobe’s first historical revival, Adobe Garamond is a digital interpretation of the roman types of Claude Garamond and the italic types of Robert Granjon. Since…

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Garamond Premier font

Garamond Premier

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Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo…

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Adobe Caslon font

Adobe Caslon

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The Englishman William Caslon punchcut many roman, italic, and non-Latin typefaces from 1720 until his death in 1766. At that time most types were being imported to England from Dutch…

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Minion font

Minion

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In designing Minion font, Robert Slimbach was inspired by the timeless beauty of the fonts of the late Renaissance. Minion was created primarily as a traditional text font but adapts…

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Hiroshige Sans font

Hiroshige Sans

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Hiroshige was designed in 1986 by Cynthia Hollandsworth (now Batty) of AlphaOmega Typography, Inc. The typeface was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by the great nineteenth-century Japanese…

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Apolline Std font

Apolline Std

A Venetian serif in 6 stylesThe Apolline typeface family was created by Jean François Porchez as a means to study the transition from Renaissance writing into the first printing types.…

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