Garamond is the name given to many serif typefaces, after the Latinized name of the 16th-century French artisan Claude Garamont. Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. He worked in the tradition of what is now called old-style serif letter design, that produced letters with a relatively organic structure resembling handwriting with a pen.