Garamond
-Serif
-Claude Garamond
-Designed in the 16th century
-Garamond also designed Granjon and Sabon
-Thicker tails, stem, and shoulders with thinner strokes for bars, cross bars, and terminals
-Family members: Regular, Italic, Bold
Typography
Old Style- style of serif font developed by Renaissance typographers to replace the Blackletter style of type.
Transitional- represents the initial departure from centuries of Old Style tradition and immediately predate the Modern period.
Modern- represents the initial departure from centuries of Old Style tradition and immediately predate the Modern periods
Slab Serif- the serifs are square and larger, bolder than serifs of previous typestyles. Considered a sub-classification of Modern
Sans Serif- type which does not have serifs — the little extra strokes found at the end of main vertical and horizontal strokes of some letterforms
Stroke Weight- The main diagonal portion of a letterform such as in N, M, or Y is the stroke.
Axis- An imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes
Lining Figures- approximate capital letters in that they are uniform in height, and generally align with the baseline and the cap height
Non-aligning figures- designed to simulate the x-height of lowercase letters
Ligatures- Two or more letters are joined together to form one glyph or characters


















