Typeface Design for JJannon

Three centuries of misattribution, one meticulous revival

JJannon is François Rappo's contemporary revival of the seventeenth-century French type cut by Jean Jannon, whose letterforms were misattributed to Claude Garamond for nearly three hundred years until scholar Beatrice Warde corrected the record in the early twentieth century. Rappo preserves key features of the original drawings—the asymmetrical axis, the small inclined bowl of the 'a,' and cupped serifs—while producing a family spanning text and display ranges. The family is published by Optimo.

Set in JJannon