claudium

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ClaudiumNB
Regular, Bold & Cursive

Available in Postscript for Mac,
TrueType & PostScript
for Windows

Claudium began as a sans serif version of Garamond. Over time it became a meditation on the nature of French typography from Garamond to Excoffon. It was especially influenced by Cassandre’s type for the Orly airport which seems to epitomize certain aspects of the French character—at least in typography.
Attempts to create an italic met with disaster, but after lots of Cotes du Rhone, a cursive italic, based more in Garamond’s Greek forms, emerged. It came at a time when I was studying Victor Hammer’s Uncial and Andromaque cursive, so Claudium Italic was developed as a lower case only similar to Andromaque, and mated to the regular caps ala Griffo’s original italic type. In keeping with the cursive lowercase there are cursive style numbers.