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.