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In the world of typography, most digital fonts trace their lineage back to a single foundry or a famous type designer. The Agas font is a delightful exception. It is a painstaking digital revival of the actual types used by the 16th-century Dutch printer Christoffel Plantijn (c. 1520–1589) in his world-famous Antwerp printing office, the Plantin Press .

Designed primarily by (with contributions from others under the auspices of the Dutch Type Library), Agas is not a "modern" interpretation of an old style. It is a historical reconstruction, built from direct measurements of original metal type specimens. The Historical Source: Plantijn’s “Garamond” The specific typeface Agas revives is known as the “Garamonde” of Plantijn. However, this is a historical quirk. For centuries, a large group of elegant old-style serifs were misattributed to the French punchcutter Claude Garamond (c. 1490–1561). agas font