| Date: 1967 Designer:
Jan Tschichold Foundry:
Stempel / Linotype / Monotype Location:
Frankfurt, Germany Current equivalent:
Linotype Sabon See also:
BT Classical Garamond Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Metal (machine)
Photosetting
Postscript
Opentype | | Famous for:
First typeface made to match across phototypesetting, hotmetal and foundry type.
Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting
Ubiquity:
Very widely used
Category:
20th Century Serif Roman
Stress: Angled
Serifs: Oblique | | Design history:
An elegant and faithful 20th century interpretation of Garamond, named after one of his pupils – Jacob Sabon, the man who took Garamond's type to Frankfurt in 1562. Tschichold was commissioned by the Master Printers Association of Germany to create the first typeface to reliably match cast foundry type for handsetting, with output from machine composition, across both Monotype and Linotype systems. In addition to this, the new typeface had to match within the new film and photosetting systems then being introduced. Although the resulting type was constrained by the requirements of these criteria, Sabon is undoubtedly one of the most successful Garamond revivals. | |  |
