Sabon

Sabon is the name of an old style serif typeface designed by the German born typographer and designer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974) in the period 1964–1967. The typeface was released jointly by the Linotype, Monotype, and Stempel type foundries in 1967.

Design of the roman is based on types by Claude Garamond (c.1480–1561), particularly a specimen printed by the Frankfurt printer Konrad Berner. Berner had married the widow of a fellow printer Jacques Sabon, the source of the face's name. The italics are based on types designed by a contemporary of Garamond's Robert Grandjon. The typeface is frequently described as a Garamond revival.

An early first use of Sabon was the setting of the Washburn College Bible in 1973 by the American graphic designer Bradbury Thompson. All books of the King James biblical text were set by hand in a process called thought-unit typography, where Thompson broke the lines at their spoken syntactical breaks.

Sabon was also used as the typeface in the 1979 "Book of Common Prayer" of the Episcopal Church (United States), as well as all of that church's secondary liturgical texts (such as the "Book of Occasional Services" and "Lesser Feasts and Fasts").

abon Next

Jean-François Porchez designed the revival of the Sabon known as Sabon Next. Sabon Next is based upon Tschichold's 1967 Sabon design for the Stempel foundry and Porchez' study of original Garamond models. The family consists of 6 weights, without Greek and Cyrillic support. Within each weight there are also old style figures, small capitals, and an alternate glyph set.

In addition to the additional weights, a collection of printers' ornaments and dingbats, titled Sabon Next Ornaments is available.

References

*Friedl, Friederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. "Typography: An encyclopedic survery of type design and techniques through history." Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
*Lawson, Alexander S., "Anatomy of a Typeface". Godine: 1990. ISBN 978-0879233334.
*Meggs, Philip B. and Rob Carter."Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces." Wiley: 1993. ISBN 0-471-28429-7.
*Meggs, Philip B. and McKelvey, Roy."Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces." RC Publications: 2000. ISBN 1-883915-08-2.
*Meggs, Philip B. "History of Graphic Design." John Wiley & Sons: 1998. ISBN 0-470-04265-6.

External links

* [http://www.tschichold.de www.tschichold.de] .
* [http://www.idea-mag.com/cgi-bin/book/catalog.cgi?language=en&item=321 Special issue 321 of Idea magazine on Jan Tschichold] .
* [http://www.textism.com/textfaces/index.html?id=19 Short biography of Jan Tschichold at "Textism"] .
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/240/linotypesabon.html Type Gallery - Linotype Sabon]
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/1436/sabon-family.html Sabon Linotype] .
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/156211/monotypesabon-family.html Sabon Monotype] .
* [http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/view/SabonNextLT Sabon Next by Jean-François Porchez] .
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/53159/sabonnext-family.html Sabon Next Font Family - by Jean François Porchez]
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/2857/linotypeupdatesaclassic.html Linotype updates a classic: Sabon Next – new life for an old font]
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/2837/linotypefontmixidealfornewspapers.html Linotype font mix ideal for newspapers - August 18, 2004: Sabon Next takes on the press]