Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Garamond Outline

Opening - start with his life
- Claude Garamond - picture of him
- 1480 or 1490 - have got both as his birth year\
- lived in France
- apprenticeship with printer
Middle - Early successes
-Europe - not just France
Middle - Famous typeface
- Grecs du Roi - (classify - if can find info)
- asked for by King of France
Middle - Other Fonts he created
Middle - His namesake fonts
- confusion about if he designed them (no)
Middle - Modern use of his typefaces
- Garamond - (classify) - Adobe and others
- when was created - what was going on
Closing - end of his life and his impact on font design
- died 1561