Garamond is the archetypal French humanist Old-Style serif, cut by Claude Garamont in Paris in the 1530s and codified in the 1592 Egenolff-Berner specimen. Its structure is calligraphic and pen-drawn — inclined oblique stress, a small aperture, letters that read as written before they were cut. This system dresses those forms in their authentic ground: aged laid rag book paper, a muted foxed warm-grey sheet darker than fresh cream, printed in dense black ink with rubricated red for initials and section marks. The page is a single justified column with wide margins, drop initials and running heads — a Renaissance leaf, not a webpage pretending to be one.