Robert Granjon

[1][4][5][6][7] The son of Parisian bookseller and printer Jean Granjon,[3] he married the daughter of wood engraver Bernard Salomon.

[10] In a preface, he wrote that he hoped it would be a national letter style for the French language comparable to those of the "Hebrews, Greeks [and] Romans".

[11] He had received from Henry II an exclusive privilege to use the type for ten years,[12] although it was apparently not enforced, as Philippe Danfrie and Richard Breton quickly brought out an imitation.

[23] His name continued to be known in the printing trade for the century after his death: in 1667 the Amsterdam merchant Paul le Conte claimed (dubiously, according to John A.

[28][29] Despite being named after Renaissance printer Christophe Plantin, it is based on a Gros Cicero type which is designed by Robert Granjon.

[41] The roman characters of MVB Verdigris by Mark van Bronkhorst are based on Granjon’s designs, while its italics are inspired by the works of Pierre Haultin.

Evangelium Sanctum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in Arabic , 1590, with Arabic types of Robert Grandjon, Typographia Medicea , Rome .
Comparisons between a number of typefaces influenced by the designs of Robert Granjon and/or Claude Garamond . A common feature among them (and most if not all typefaces mentioned on this page) is an uppercase "P" with a gap next to the vertical.