Claude Garamond

Claude Garamond born 1480 in Paris,France type founder, publisher, punch cutter, type designer.1510:trains as a punch cutter with Simon de Colines in Paris. 1520: trains with Geoffroy Tory.1530: Garamond's first type is used in an edition of the book "Paraphrasis in Elegantiarum Libros Laurentii Vallae" by Erasmus. It is based on Aldus Manutius type De Aetna, cut in 1455. 1540: King Francis I commissions Garamond to cut a Greek type. Garamonds ensuing Grec du Roi used by Robert Estienne in three sizes exclusively for the printing of Greek books. From 1545 onwards Garamond also works as a publisher, first with Pierre Gaultier and later with Jean Barbe. The first book he published is "Pia et Religiosa Meditatio" by David Chambellan.The books are set using typefaces designed by Garamond!