Started together with ITC
Century and ITC
Cheltenham, to address the “shortage of ultra
weight typefaces in the text type size ranges. […] After the
drawings for the three ultra weights were completed, in both the
roman and italic versions, it soon became apparent that an
intermediate ‘book’ weight, with the same matching lowercase ‘x’
heights, compatible with the ultra styles, would also be highly
useful.” ITC Garamond Ultra and Book, in roman and italic styles,
were announced for September 15, 1975. [U&lc, vol.
2 no. 3] Light and Bold weights were added in 1977, together with a
full range of condensed styles. [U&lc, vol. 4 no.
1] Narrow styles (between the regular width and Condensed) were
added before 1995 [U&lc, vol. 22 no.
1].
A Cyrillic version was added by Alexander Tarbeev More…
Started together with ITC Century and ITC Cheltenham, to address the “shortage of ultra weight typefaces in the text type size ranges. […] After the drawings for the three ultra weights were completed, in both the roman and italic versions, it soon became apparent that an intermediate ‘book’ weight, with the same matching lowercase ‘x’ heights, compatible with the ultra styles, would also be highly useful.” ITC Garamond Ultra and Book, in roman and italic styles, were announced for September 15, 1975. [U&lc, vol. 2 no. 3] Light and Bold weights were added in 1977, together with a full range of condensed styles. [U&lc, vol. 4 no. 1] Narrow styles (between the regular width and Condensed) were added before 1995 [U&lc, vol. 22 no. 1].
A Cyrillic version was added by Alexander Tarbeev (ParaType, 1995).
See also ITC Garamond Handtooled.
