There are several typefaces called Garamond. Some are based on the work of the influential 16th century French type designer Claude Garamond. The Original Garamond belongs to the family of Renaissance serif typefaces; see "typeface" for more on classification. The Font that most resembles original garamond is not named Garamond, but Granjon to differ from the many other kinds of garamonds.

Other typefaces such as American Garamond or Elegant Garamond are not, typically, based on Garamond's work. Instead, they build on the rather different typefaces of Jean Jannon . Italic typefaces called Garamond are almost never based on Garamond's own italics; usually they are derived from typefaces by Robert Granjon , a younger colleague of Garamond. (The practice of pairing roman and italic typefaces was new in Garamond's time, and he does not appear to have done so himself.)

He also designed a coordinated series of italic typefaces. Though less influential, they also clearly belong to a typeface related to Garamond. They also have notably graceful forms.

Sample

The following paragraph is in Garamond, if any form of it is installed on your machine. If not, a monospace font is used:

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