Garamondn.

1780 Encycl. Brit. V. 3178/2 The small Roman was, by way of excellence, known among the printers of these nations by the name of Garamond's small Roman.]

1868 H. N. Humphreys Hist. Art Printing ix. 144 The small Roman letters of this skilful engraver became technically known, not only in France, but in other countries, as Garamond type.

1926 ‘P. Beaujon’ in Fleuron V. 160 The seventeenth century..produced..[a] roman and italic derived from Garamont's designs..which..survives as the ‘original Garamond’... There can be little doubt that this is the design of Jean Jannon, dating from 1615.

1928 Scholartis Press Catal. June Printed by the Westminster Press in 14 point Garamond.

1929 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 509/2 The ‘Garamond’ type steadily acquired influence.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June Suppl. p. i/3 The brilliant Garamond setting for Louys' ‘Roi Pausole’.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June Suppl. p. i/4 Jules Meynial shows..a catalogue well printed in handset Garamond.

1962 D. B. Updike Printing Types (ed. 3) II. xxiii. 234 While the Cloister or the Garamond—both brought out by the American Type Founders Company—may not be absolutely necessary to an office, a type of this historic class should be selected.

1966 H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design (ed. 2) viii. 85 The Garamond series was the first in the ambitious programme of matrix production undertaken by Monotype in 1922.

1966 H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design (ed. 2) viii. 85 Jannon, at the outset of his career, used Garamond types, and although he based his design on them it was new in several ways.