DESIGNER

Claude Garamond

1499 - 1561

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Claude Garamont (c. 1510–1561), known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris. Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. He worked in the tradition now called old-style serif design, which produced letters with a relatively organic structure resembling handwriting with a pen but with a slightly more structured and upright design. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Garamond has received more than 206,131 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Claude Garamond is the 31st most popular designer, the 1,738th most popular biography from France (down from 1,551st in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Designer.

Claude Garamond was a French type designer who is most famous for developing the Garamond typeface in the 16th century.

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  • 58.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Claude Garamond ranks 31 out of 104. Before him are Battista Farina, Manolo Blahnik, Raymond Loewy, Iris Apfel, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and Pierre Balmain. After him are Dieter Rams, Salvatore Ferragamo, Giambattista Bodoni, Josiah Wedgwood, Alexander McQueen, and Beau Brummell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Claude Garamond ranks 9. Before him are Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Diane de Poitiers, Giulio Romano, Claude of France, Peter of Alcantara, and Bernardino de Sahagún. After him are Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, Maria Salviati, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Michiel Coxie, Jan Łaski, and Polidoro da Caravaggio. Among people deceased in 1561, Claude Garamond ranks 9. Before him are Gülfem Hatun, Menno Simons, Lope de Aguirre, Bairam Khan, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara, and Matteo Bandello. After him are Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Sayri Túpac, Jan Tarnowski, Luis de Milán, Alonso Berruguete, and Hans Tausen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Garamond ranks 1,738 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Delerue (1925), Thierry Mugler (1948), Beatrice of Provence (1229), Bernard Kouchner (1939), Théo Sarapo (1936), and Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1695). After him are Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (1605), Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (1619), Jeanne Guyon (1648), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), Emmanuelle Seigner (1966), and Everard des Barres (1113).

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Among DESIGNERS In France

Among designers born in France, Claude Garamond ranks 6. Before him are René Lalique (1860), Philippe Starck (1949), Raymond Loewy (1893), Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), and Pierre Balmain (1914). After him are Jeanne Lanvin (1867), Louis Majorelle (1859), Diana Vreeland (1903), Nicolas Jenson (1420), and Jean Louis (1907).

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