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 15th Century. In the 20th 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.
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