Claude Garamond: Quick Facts

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French printer and typesetter

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French printer

Pierre-Simon Fournier

French engraver

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German typographer and author

Stanley Morison

English typographer

Giovanni Mardersteig

Italian printer

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Italian printer

William Caslon

English printer

Bruce Rogers

American typographer

Sir Emery Walker

English printer

Frederic W. Goudy

American printer and typographer

W.A. Dwiggins

American artist

S.H. de Roos

Dutch typographer

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson

British book designer

Philippe Grandjean

French engraver

Cassandre

French graphic artist

Geoffroy Tory

French printer

William Morris

British artist and author

El Lissitzky

Russian artist