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Typography, Referenced
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Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
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Background Traits
In the s, French printers began to adopt the Venetian typo-
graphic traditions, and Frenchman Claude Garamond ()
took notice. Garamond moved away from designing type with
calligraphic evidence and made advances to some of Fran-
cesco Griff o’s () fi rst italic letters. As a punchcutter,
Garamond placed a priority on type design and casting, and
he gained prominence as the founder of one of t ...