La création de Sabon® Next par Jean François Porchez a donné à cette fonte sa troisième vie. En effet, la police originale Sabon, dessinée par Jan Tschichold dans les années 60, était déjà la renaissance contemporaine de caractères dessinés par Claude Garamond au 16ème siècle.
Avec Sabon, non seulement Tschichold a créé l’une des meilleures renaissances de Garamond à ce jour, il a également élaboré ce que l’on pourrait appeler les premières « fontes système ». Commandée par une
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Les fontes de la collection Platinum de Linotype – les coffrets promotionnels de ces fontes sont désormais disponibles
La Collection Platinum est une série exclusive de fontes classiques optimisées, issues de la bibliothèque Linotype. En étroite collaboration avec des dessinateurs de caractères de réputation internationale, Linotype a lancé des familles de caractères retravaillées et étendues, qui sont à la page aussi bien sur le plan de la technologie que de l’esthétique. Ces
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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
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After training as a graphic designer, during which he focused on type design, Jean François Porchez (1964) worked as a type direcor at Dragon Rouge. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Today he designs cusom typefaces for companies such as ratp (public transport in Paris), Peugeot, Cosa Crocieres, France Télécom, as well as disributing internationally his retail typefaces via his www.typofonderie.com website.
He was a jury member of the 3rd Linotype Type Design
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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
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Jan Tschichold in different phases of life
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L’astuce typographique du mois par Akira Kobayashi, directeur de typographie de Linotype !
Juin 2006: Apostrophes et guillemets
Quel est le bon glyphe : le pouce, l’aigu ou l’apostrophe ? – Cette fonction décrit l’usage correct des signes de ponctuation trompeurs qui servent à signifier les omissions et, dans la langue anglaise, les possessifs et parfois les
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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
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Porchez s’est assuré que les fonctions OpenType de Sabon Next puissent satisfaire toutes les nécessités d’ordre typographique. La liste ci-dessous énumère la totalité de ce que vous y trouverez!
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Formes de casse : les parenthèses, les crochets et certains signes de ponctuation modifient leur position verticale lorsqu’ils apparaissent avec des lettres capitales uniquement
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Ligatures (fb, ffb, ff, fh, ffh, fi, ffi, fj,
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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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Platinum Collection Fonts
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The design of Sabon Next™ by Jean François Porchez, a revival of a revival, was a double challenge: to try to discern Jan Tschichold´s own schema for the original Sabon, and to interpret the complexity of a design originally made in two versions for different typecasting systems.
The first was designed for use on Linotype and Monotype machines, and the second for Stempel hand composition. Because the Stempel version does not have the constraints necessary for types intended for machine composition, it seems closer to a pure interpretation of its Garamond ancestor.
Naturally Porchez based Sabon Next on this second version and also referred to original Garamond models, carefully improving the proportions of the existing digital
Sabon while matching its alignments.
The new family is large and versatile - with Roman and italic in 6 weights from regular to black. Most weights also have small caps, Old style Figures, alternates (swashes, ligatures, etc); and there is one ornament font with many lovely fleurons. The standard versions include revised lining figures that are intentionally designed to be a little smaller than capitals.