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Garamond Premier Pro Font

Publisher: Adobe

Garamond Premier Pro is a serif typeface household. This typeface has thirty-four styles and was published by Adobe.

Garamond Premier Pro had its genesis in 1988 when Adobe Principal Designer Robert Slimbach went to the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, to study their collection of Claude Garamond's metal punches and type styles. Garamond, a French punchcutter, produced a refined array of book key ins the mid-1500s that integrated an extraordinary degree of balance and sophistication, and stand as a pinnacle of appeal and practicality in typefounding. While fine-tuning Adobe Garamond (released in 1989) as an useful style suited to modern-day publishing, Slimbach started planning a completely new analysis of Garamond's designs based upon the big variety of distinct sizes he had actually seen at the Plantin-Moretus, and on the similar italics cut by Robert Granjon, Garamond's contemporary. By modeling Garamond Premier Pro on these hand-cut type sizes, Slimbach has maintained the varied optical size characteristics and freshness of the initial styles, while creating a practical 21st-century type family. Garamond Premier Pro contains a substantial glyph complement, consisting of central European, Cyrillic and Greek characters, and is used in five weights ranging from light to bold.