# Granjon

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This article is about the typeface. For the entrepreneur, see [Jacques-Antoine Granjon](/source/Jacques-Antoine_Granjon).

Serif typeface

Category Serif Classification Old-style Designers George W. Jones (roman, italic) Chauncey H. Griffith (bold) Foundry L&M (Linotype & Machinery) Linotype Date released 1924

**Granjon** is an [old-style](/source/Serif#Old-style) [serif](/source/Serif) [typeface](/source/Typeface) designed by [George W. Jones](/source/George_W._Jones_(printer)) around 1924 for the British branch of the Linotype company, and based on the [Garamond](/source/Garamond) typeface that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592. The roman design was from [Claude Garamond](/source/Claude_Garamond) and the italic version was from [Robert Granjon](/source/Robert_Granjon). Because several other Garamonds were on the market in the 1920s, Jones decided to name his type Granjon. Jones, a master printer based in London, had been engaged by Linotype to improve the quality of their typeface range through the development of revivals of notable type designs of the past.[1]

Granjon was popular in the metal type era and [Beatrice Warde](/source/Beatrice_Warde) described it as her favourite revival of French renaissance typefaces in her famous 1926 article on the topic; it was also praised by former Linotype designer [Walter Tracy](/source/Walter_Tracy).[2] (Many of the Garamond revivals of the 1920s were later shown to be actually based on the types of Jean Jannon; Granjon was an exception to this. Warde commented "It would seem that Garamond's name, having so long been used on a design he never cut, is now by stern justice left off a face which is undoubtedly his."[2][3]) Jones developed a companion bold named Bernhard, named for sixteenth-century engraver [Bernard Salomon](/source/Bernard_Salomon).[a] A longtime popular text type, Granjon's digital version is sometimes criticized as being "anemic" in smaller point sizes.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Devroye_1-0)** Devroye, Luc. ["George William Jones"](http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-34416.html). *Type Design Information Page*. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Warde_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Warde_2-1) [Warde, Beatrice](/source/Beatrice_Warde) (1926). ["The 'Garamond' Types"](http://www.garamond.culture.fr/en/page/the_article_by_beatrice_warde). *The Fleuron*: 131–179.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Letters_of_Credit_3-0)** Tracy, Walter (2003). *Letters of Credit: a view of type design*. Boston: David R. Godine. pp. 143–4 etc. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-56792-240-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-56792-240-0).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Griffith_4-0)** ["Chauncey H. Griffith"](http://www.klingspor-museum.de/KlingsporKuenstler/Schriftdesigner/Griffith/Griffith.pdf) (PDF). [Klingspor Museum](/source/Klingspor_Museum). Retrieved 13 August 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** There seems to be some uncertainty about Granjon bold: some sources credit [Chauncey H. Griffith](/source/Chauncey_H._Griffith) of the [Mergenthaler Linotype Company](/source/Mergenthaler_Linotype_Company) with designing it, perhaps for the American release.[4]

- Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. *Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History.* Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-57912-023-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57912-023-7).

- Jaspert, Berry and Johnson. *Encyclopaedia of Type Faces.* Cassell Paperback, London; 2001. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-84188-139-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84188-139-2)

- Lawson, Alexander S., *[Anatomy of a Typeface](/source/Anatomy_of_a_Typeface)*. Godine: 1990. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-87923-333-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87923-333-4).

- Macmillan, Neil. *An A–Z of Type Designers.* Yale University Press: 2006. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-300-11151-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-11151-7).

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Granjon](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Granjon_(typeface)).

- [Granjon Font Family - by George W. Jones](https://archive.today/20130127204826/http://www.linotype.com/en/505/granjon-family.html)

- [MyFonts web page for Granjon](http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/granjon/)

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