Garalde
Also called Old-style, Aldine
The serif class that turned the pen's slant upright without losing it, sharpening contrast and shrinking the x-height's dominance.
Public domain
Public domain: A broadsheet printed by William Caslon about 1734; Caslon died in 1766 and the sheet is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain sheet as carrying no new copyright.
Near it
Humanist
Transitional
Stress
Ball terminal
Vox-ATypI
What it is made of
| what it names | ATypI: "the 'Garaldes' included finely proportioned serif faces like Garamond and Bembo" | ATypI, "ATypI de-adopts Vox-ATypI typeface classification system", published 27 April 2021, read whole (1,136 words). Maximilien Vox's own 1954 text is NOT HELD AND UNREAD in this house. Everything here comes from the custodian's 2021 statement, which is a primary for the system's history and its withdrawal and is NOT a definition of the individual classes |
| where the name comes from | a contraction of Garamond and Aldus | NOT SOURCED: this house holds no text that says so, and it is left as the common account rather than quoted |
| and the class is retired | see below | AND THE CLASSIFICATION THIS TERM BELONGS TO WAS RETIRED BY ITS OWN CUSTODIAN. The ATypI board de-adopted Vox-ATypI on 18 March 2021 and withdrew its endorsement, because the system divides only the Latin writing system and a later revision put Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and the Asian scripts together under one heading called Non-Latines. ATypI, "ATypI de-adopts Vox-ATypI typeface classification system", published 27 April 2021, read whole (1,136 words) |
| this shelf has none | two of our 23 families are serifed and neither is a garalde | measured with the shelf's own stroke data, an n of more than two strokes |
Where it came from
Named by Vox from Claude Garamond and Aldus Manutius. Sixteenth-century France and Italy.
Done well
- Garamond, Claude Garamond, 1530
- Bembo, Monotype, after Griffo, 1929