Mit der Kreation von Sabon® Next hat Jean François Porchez sozusagen das Revival eines Revivals geschaffen. Denn die ursprüngliche Sabon von Jan Tschichold war seinerseits schon eine für die Sechzigerjahre modernisierte Variante einer Schrift von Claude Garamond aus dem 16. Jahrhundert.
Mit Sabon hatte Tschichold nicht nur eine der seinerzeit besten Garamond-Neuinterpretationen geschaffen, sondern auch das kreiert, was man als einen der ersten „Systemfonts” definieren
[...]Claude Garamond – born c. 1480 in Paris, France, died 1561 in Paris, France – type founder, publisher, punch cutter, type designer.
1510: trains as a punch cutter with Simon de Colines in Paris. 1520: trains with Geoffroy Tory. 1530: Garamond’s first type is used in an edition of the book "Paraphrasis in Elegantiarum Libros Laurentii Vallae" by Erasmus. It is based on Aldus Manutius’ type De Aetna, cut in 1455. 1540: King Francis I commissions Garamond to cut a Greek type. Garamond’s ensuing
[...]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 in verschiedenen Lebensphasen
OpenType is a font format that was collaboratively developed by Adobe and Microsoft during the 1990s. The first specifications were published in 1997, and the first OpenType fonts came onto the market in 2000. Today, most new fonts are released in OpenType format, which can safely be considered the new industry standard.
The OpenType format supports Unicode™, which is why OpenType fonts can contain large character sets. In fact, an OpenType font can contain more than 65,000 glyphs! This is a
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Oktober 2007: Ein paar Worte zum Thema Buchstaben-Spationierung/Unterschneidung
Optische Spationierung mit Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign enthält eine Option, die das optische Spationieren oder Unterschneiden zwischen Glyphen-Paaren ermöglicht. Die Anwahl der optischen Spationierung überschreibt die metrische Information, die im
[...]Das Font-Format OpenType ist eine Weiterentwicklung von TrueType™ und PostScript® und wurde von Adobe Systems Inc. und der Microsoft Corporation gemeinsam entwickelt. OpenType verbindet diese beiden Technologien und erweitert ihren Funktionsumfang. Das Ergebnis ist eine neue Generation von OpenType-Fonts mit besseren Typografie- und Layout-Fähigkeiten (Features) und der Möglichkeit, uneingeschränkt Unicode™-kompatible erweiterte Zeichensätze zu nutzen.
Hinweis: Wenn Sie eine
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Font Designer: Claude Garamond, 1499–1561
Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in the development of the range of contemporary typefaces that bear his name. What is accepted is the influence his work had on other typefaces from the late Renaissance to the present. Fonts named Garamond, or Garamont, are related to the alphabets of Claude Garamond as well as to the work of Jean Jannon (1580–1635 or 1658), much of which was attributed to Garamond. In
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Font Designer: Jan Tschichold, 1967
Jan Tschichold created the font Sabon® and based his typeface design on a version of Garamond™ designed by Jakob Sabon and Conrad Berner. Sabon was similar produced for three foundrys: D.Stempel AG, Linotype and Monotype. Classic, elegant, and extremely legible, the font Sabon is one of the most beautiful Garamond variations.
The font Sabon is particularly good for text and headlines in: books/text, magazines, advertisements,
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Font Designer: Claude Garamond, 1499–1561
Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in the development of the range of contemporary typefaces that bear his name. What is accepted is the influence his work had on other typefaces from the late Renaissance to the present. Fonts named Garamond, or Garamont, are related to the alphabets of Claude Garamond as well as to the work of Jean Jannon (1580–1635 or 1658), much of which was attributed to Garamond. In
[...]Porchez stellte sicher, dass die OpenType-Version von Sabon jeder Anforderung moderner Drucktechnik genügt. Hier die komplette Aufzählung aller enthaltenen Elemente:
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Satzzeichen: Parenthesen, Klammern und einige Interpunktionszeichen ändern ihre vertikale Position, wenn nur Großbuchstaben verwendet werden.
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Ligaturen (fb, ffb, ff, fh, ffh, fi, ffi, fj, ffj, fk, fl, ffl, ft, fft und S-Ligatur)
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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
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