How Claude Garamond Changed the Type Industry

Claude Garamond, a French publisher and punch cutter from Paris, “created visual forms that were embraced for two hundred years.” His work not only paved the way for other punch cutters but he altered the industry.

“As the first type designer and punch-cutter to sell his punches in retail to other printers, Garamond led on the establishment of the trend for many other typographers, punch-cutters, printers, and publishers to make the same sales in retail, which helped spread new typefaces all around. He was one of the leading type designers of his time”…