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Galliard (typeface)

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201: 152: 143:, had worked to itemise the museum's extensive collection of sixteenth-century punches and matrices in the 1950s, with his son occasionally helping. Work continued on the typeface, sporadically, through the 1960s and 1970s. The typeface was released in 1978. With a glittering, crisp design, Galliard has been used both for body text and for headings. Galliard is notable for its 'pelican-beak' letter 'g', based on Granjon's Double Pica italic of 1570. 34: 191:
The family includes 4 fonts in 2 weights (regular, bold) and 1 width, with complementary italics. Character set support include. OpenType features include case sensitive forms, fractions, ligatures, lining/old style figures, localized forms, ordinals, small caps. Character set supports include Adobe
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In 1954 Carter was persuaded...to take up the appointment of Archivist at the Oxford University Press...a part of Carter's brief was therefore to look into collections...it had gradually become known that Plantin's stock of punches and matrices had also survived intact...Carter became a member of
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Galliard has robust strokes, but also sharp details and incisive contrast between thick and thin strokes. According to Lawson, "While the designers of the regenerated Garamonds were attempting to bring fidelity in their copies, Carter preferred simply to bring to Galliard his interpretation of the
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after Mike Parker had given ITC exclusive rights to Galliard. Matthew Carter drew the four roman weights and complementary italic designs while at Mergenthaler Linotype, and a suite of small caps for the Roman and Bold weights. ITC Galliard was introduced by Mergenthaler Linotype Company in 1978,
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was a lively dance of the period." Explaining what drew him to Granjon's work, Carter wrote on some of his more characteristic letterforms: "looking at them, adjectives like 'spirited, 'tense' and 'vigorous' come to mind...it is easy to admire Granjon's work."
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OpenType features include case sensitive forms, numerators/denominators, fractions, ligatures, lining/old style/proportional/tabular figures, localized forms, ordinals, scientific inferiors, superscript, small caps, diphthongs, stylistic alternates (set 1).
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the small team of researchers who performed the task of sorting and cataloguing the materials...his experience at Antwerp involved handling punches...and original matrices, from which he cast sample types, using the traditional hand mould.
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It is a version of ITC Galliard optimised for on-screen use, designed by Carl Crossgrove. Changes include increased lowercase heights, increased inter-character spacing, more open counters, adjusted thicks to thins ratio.
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Robert Granjon's Ascendonica italic, the model for Galliard's, shown in a 1611 book. The 'pelican' 'g' is used in the second line and a conventional two-storey 'g' in other parts of the text.
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The family includes 8 fonts in 4 weights and 1 width, with complementary italics. OpenType features include fractions, ligatures, ordinals, superscript.
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with public availability for ITC subscribers beginning on January 15, 1982 (as announced in December 1981 (volume 8-4) issue of U&lc magazine).
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in Antwerp. Matthew Carter, who joined Mergenthaler Linotype as a typeface designer in 1965, was also an admirer. His father,
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of a Granjon original...Galliard thus possesses the authentic sparkle that is lacking in the current Garamonds."
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The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected papers on sixteenth-century typefaces. 2 vols
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Granjon's punches for the italic Galliard is based on. The second row shows both forms of the 'g'.
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It is a version of ITC Galliard with characters that support Central European languages.
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ITC Galliard eText family - Designed by Matthew Carter in 2013 Carl Crossgrove in 2013
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Galliard was a typeface used in the graphic identity and standards of
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eText Typefaces: Typefaces for High-Quality e-Reading Experiences
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Galliard was one of twenty-three typefaces acquired by the
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Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter
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Index

galliard type size

Category
Serif
Classification
Old-style
Designer(s)
Robert Granjon
Matthew Carter
Foundry
Linotype
International Typeface Corporation
Matthew Carter
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Robert Granjon
galliard
Mike Parker
Plantin-Moretus Museum
Harry Carter

International Typeface Corporation

Yale University
Yale typeface
Museum of Modern Art
Standard Deviations
The New Criterion
Library of America
Baylor College of Medicine
Anatomy of a Typeface

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