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Sabon® Roman SC

- by Jan Tschichold
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Sabon® Roman SC
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Sabon® Font Family, comprising altogether 17 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
smallcaps
233 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 1.7.1 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
GoldEdition 2.0 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
Linotype Essentials 2 CD for Mac OS and Windows
Linotype Essentials™ 2 Value Pack
Sabon Complete Family Pack
Technical information  

Sabon® Roman SC
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Sabon® Font Family, comprising altogether 17 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
smallcaps
229 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 2.0 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
Technical information  

Sabon® Roman SC
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Sabon® Font Family, comprising altogether 17 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
smallcaps
229 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 1.7.1 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
GoldEdition 2.0 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
Linotype Essentials 2 CD for Mac OS and Windows
Linotype Essentials™ 2 Value Pack
Sabon Complete Family Pack
Technical information  

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In creating Sabon® Next, Jean François Porchez revived a revival. The original Sabon typeface, designed by Jan Tschichold was itself a contemporary revival of Claude Garamond’s 16th century types for the 1960s. With Sabon, Tschichold not only created one of the best Garamond revivals to date, he also built what you might term on of the first “system fonts.” Commissioned by a German book printers’ guild, Sabon was intended for use on Linotype machines, [...]
Jan Tschichold – born 2.4.1902 in Leipzig, Germany, died 11.8.1974 in Locarno, Switzerland – typographer, calligrapher, author, teacher. 1919–21: studies at the Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig. 1921–23: is one of Walter Tiemann’s master pupils and assistant to Hermann Delitsch. 1925: publication of Tschichold’s special issue of "Typographische Mitteilungen" magazine, entitled "elementare typographie". 1926–33: teaches typography and callygraphy at the [...]
Jan Tschichold is one of the most outstanding and influential typographers of the 20th century. He was a master in his field, worked as a teacher, wrote a number of books, designed typefaces, and worked his entire life as designer and writer. The significance of his influence on the print industry and designers in Europe and the USA is uncontested and his famous typeface Sabon is still a bestseller. In honor of his 100th birthday, Linotype is dedicating this review of his life and [...]
Find further Font Features in our Font Feature Archive. Typographic Tip of the Month from Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi! October 2007: A few words on letter spacing Optical Spacing Option in Adobe InDesign In Adobe InDesign, there is an Optical Spacing option available for the spacing between individual glyph pairs, or kerning. The Optical Spacing selection overrides the metrics information stored in the font file itself, or specific values that one enters [...]
Porchez has ensured that Sabon Next’s OpenType features meet every typographic desire. Below is an exhaustive list of what is included!  1.   Case forms: parentheses, brackets, and some punctuation marks change their vertical position when appearing with only capital letters  2.   Ligatures (fb, ffb, ff, fh, ffh, fi, ffi, fj, ffj, fk, fl, ffl, ft, and fft, plus long-s ligatures)  3.   [...]
Claude Garamond Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495. Garamond refined his Romans in later versions, adding his own concepts as he developed his skills as a punchcutter. After his death in 1561, the Garamond punches made their way to the printing office of Christoph Plantin in Antwerp, where they [...]

About Sabon® Roman SC ...

Linotype usage sample for Sabon® Roman SC
Designer: Jan Tschichold, 1967
Sabon® Roman SC belongs to the Sabon® Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
Jan Tschichold designed Sabon™ in 1964, and it was produced jointly by three foundries: D. Stempel AG, Linotype and Monotype. This was in response to a request from German master printers to make a font family that was the same design for the three metal type technologies of the time: foundry type for hand composition, linecasting, and single-type machine composition. Tschichold turned to the sixteenth century for inspiration, and the story has a complicated family thread that connects his Sabon design to the Garamond lineage.
Jakob Sabon, who the type is named for, was a student of the great French punchcutter Claude Garamond. He completed a set of his teacher's punches after Garamond's death in 1561. Sabon became owner of a German foundry when he married the granddaughter of the Frankfurt printer, Christian Egenolff. Sabon died in 1580, and his widow married Konrad Berner, who took over the foundry. Tschichold loosely based his design on types from the 1592 specimen sheet issued by the Egenolff-Berner foundry: a 14-point roman attributed to Claude Garamond, and an italic attributed to Robert Granjon. Sabon was the typeface name chosen for this twentieth century revival and joint venture in production; this name avoided confusion with other fonts connected with the names of Garamond and Granjon.
Classic, elegant, and extremely legible, Sabon is one of the most beautiful Garamond variations. Always a good choice for book typography, the Sabon family is also particularly good for text and headlines in magazines, advertisements, documentation, business reports, corporate design, multimedia, and correspondence.
Sabon combines well with:
Sans serif fonts such as Frutiger, Syntax.
Slab serif fonts such as PMN Caecilia, Clairvaux.
Fun fonts such as Grafilone, Animalia, Araby Rafique.

See also the new revised version Sabon Next from the Linotype Platinum Collection.
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