# Jacques Sabon

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| name          = Jacques Sabon
| birth_date    = {{Birth year|1535}}
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| death_date    = {{Death year and age|1580|1535}}
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| occupation    = Typefounder
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'''Jacques Sabon''' (1535 in [Lyon](/source/Lyon) – c.1580-1590 in [Frankfurt-am-Main](/source/Frankfurt-am-Main)<ref>Sources vary, giving date of death as 1580 or 1590</ref>) was a [French](/source/French_people) [typefounder](/source/typefounder). He worked with [Christian Egenolff](/source/Christian_Egenolff) in Frankfurt in 1555 and [Christophe Plantin](/source/Christophe_Plantin) of [Antwerp](/source/Antwerp) in 1565. He is associated with the forms of roman type which were being developed by [Claude Garamond](/source/Claude_Garamond) and others. On Garamond's death, Plantin and Sabon acquired much of his collection of type, and it is sometimes unclear which were Sabon's own design, and which Garamond's.

After Sabon's death, his widow married Frankfurt printer [Konrad Berner](/source/Konrad_Berner). The [Sabon](/source/Sabon) typeface, designed in the 1960s by [Jan Tschichold](/source/Jan_Tschichold), is based on a specimen printed by Berner.

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==External links==
* [http://www.infoamerica.org/museo/tipografos/paginas/sabon.htm JACQUES SABON (1535–1590)]

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