Granjon
Typeface
Category | Serif |
---|---|
Classification | Old-style |
Designer(s) |
George W. Jones
(roman, italic)
Chauncey H. Griffith (bold) |
Foundry |
L&M (Linotype & Machinery)
Linotype |
Date released | 1924 |
Granjon is an old-style serif typeface designed by George W. Jones around 1924 for the British branch of the Linotype company, and based on the Garamond typeface that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592. The roman design was from Claude Garamond and the italic version was from Robert Granjon . Because several other Garamonds were on the market in the 1920s, Jones decided to name his type Granjon. Jones, a master printer based in London, had been engaged by Linotype to improve the quality of their typeface range through the development of revivals of notable type designs of the past. [1]
Granjon was popular in the metal type era and Beatrice Warde described it as her favourite revival of French renaissance typefaces in her famous 1926 article on the topic; it was also praised by former Linotype designer Walter Tracy . [2] (Many of the Garamond revivals of the 1920s were later shown to be actually based on the types of Jean Jannon; Granjon was an exception to this. Warde commented "It would seem that Garamond's name, having so long been used on a design he never cut, is now by stern justice left off a face which is undoubtedly his." [2] [3] ) Jones developed a companion bold named Bernhard, named for sixteenth-century engraver Bernard Salomon . [lower-alpha 1] A longtime popular text type, Granjon's digital version is sometimes criticized as being "anemic" in smaller point sizes.
References
- ↑ Devroye, Luc. "George William Jones" . Type Design Information Page . Retrieved 11 March 2017 .
- 1 2 Warde, Beatrice (1926). "The 'Garamond' Types" . The Fleuron : 131–179.
- ↑ Tracy, Walter (2003). Letters of Credit: a view of type design . Boston: David R. Godine. pp. 143–4 etc. ISBN 978-1-56792-240-0 .
- ↑ "Chauncey H. Griffith" (PDF) . Klingspor Museum . Retrieved 13 August 2017 .
- ↑ There seems to be some uncertainty about Granjon bold: some sources credit Chauncey H. Griffith of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company with designing it, perhaps for the American release. [4]
- Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7 .
- Jaspert, Berry and Johnson. Encyclopaedia of Type Faces. Cassell Paperback, London; 2001. ISBN 1-84188-139-2
- Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface . Godine: 1990. ISBN 978-0-87923-333-4 .
- Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7 .