Garamond Premier Pro

What is the Garamond Premier Pro font?

Garamond Premier Pro had its genesis in 1988, when Adobe senior type designer Robert Slimbach visited the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, to study its collection of Claude Garamond’s metal punches and type designs.
Garamond, a French punchcutter, produced a refined array of book types in the mid-1500s that combined an unprecedented degree of balance and elegance, and stand as a pinnacle of beauty and practicality in typefounding. While fine-tuning Adobe Garamond, which was released in 1989, as a useful design suited to modern publishing, Slimbach started planning an entirely new interpretation of Garamond’s designs based on the large range of unique sizes he had seen at the Plantin-Moretus and on the comparable italics cut by Robert Granjon, Garamond’s contemporary. More…
By modeling Garamond Premier Pro on these hand-cut type sizes, Slimbach retained the varied optical size characteristics and freshness of the original designs while creating a practical 21st-century type family.
Garamond Premier Pro contains an extensive glyph complement, including central European, Cyrillic, and Greek characters and is offered in five weights ranging from light to bold.

Garamond Premier Pro Font families

The Garamond Premier Pro includes the following font families:

  • Garamond Premr Pro
  • Garamond Premr Pro Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Med
  • Garamond Premr Pro Med Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro SemiBold
  • Garamond Premr Pro SemiBold Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Bold
  • Garamond Premr Pro Bold Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Caption
  • Garamond Premr Pro Caption Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Caption Med
  • Garamond Premr Pro Caption Med Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Caption SemiBold
  • Garamond Premr Pro Caption SemiBold Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Caption Bold
  • Garamond Premr Pro Caption Bold Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display Light
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display Light Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display Med
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display Med Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display SemiBold
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display SemiBold Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display Bold
  • Garamond Premr Pro Display Bold Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro SubHead
  • Garamond Premr Pro SubHead Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro SubHead Med
  • Garamond Premr Pro SubHead Med Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro SubHead SemiBold
  • Garamond Premr Pro SubHead SemiBold Italic
  • Garamond Premr Pro SubHead Bold
  • Garamond Premr Pro SubHead Bold Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Preview

Here is a preview of how Garamond Premier Pro will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.


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