Claude Garamond (Garamont) looks like a badass


I wouldn’t want to get in a bar fight with him.

Wood-engraved portrait from 1582 © Imprimerie Nationale de France, Atelier du Livre d’Art et de l’Estampe.

Image from “Printing for Kingdom, Empire, and Republic – Treasures from the Archives of the Imprimerie Nationale”, 2011