Garamond

Named after Claude Garamond, this is the name given to a group of old-style serif typefaces. Claude Garamond was a French punch-cutter in the 15^th Century. In the 20^th Century the producers of matrices for machine setting wanted to revive and recut historical typefaces. Several versions of the typeface were produced by Lanston Monotype in 1918 and drew up by Frederic Goudy in 1921. Five years later Beatrice Warde published an article, which claimed the original of these typefaces was not the work of Claude Garamond but in fact of another French punch-cutter Jean Jannon.

By the time this was found out and made public the name Garamond had stuck and was not changed.

Typography

I like the following poster because its creative yet simple and still legible.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/25/breathtaking-typographic-posters/

Unlike this one which the reader can't tell straight away what it is about.

I like this example from the following link because I've always had an interest in graffiti typography.

http://juliany.de/sign/tags/typography/

I like how in this example from http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/25/breathtaking-typographic-posters/ the type on the poster looks like its sitting out from the page and that is exactly what it's communicating.