Degree of Guilt A Novel Author:Richard North Patterson This book was set in Garamond, a typeface originally designed by the famous Parisian type cutter Claude Garamond (1480-1561). This version of Garamond was modeled on a 1592 specimen sheet from the Egenolff-Berner foundry, which was produced from thypes thought to have been brought to Frankfurt by Jacques Sabon. — Claude Garamond is one of the mo... more »st famous type designers in printing history. His distinguished romans and italics first appreared in Opera Ciceronis in 1543-44. While delightfully unconventional in design, the Garamond types are clear and open, yet maintain an elegance and precission of line that mark them as French.« less