Beaujon
Heavyweight · Connor Davenport, Luke Charsley, Léa Bruneau · 2026
A French Renaissance serif drawing on Beatrice Warde's attribution research into the Garamond types, referencing Parmentier's Garamond and Vendome across Display and Text optical sizes.
About
Designed by Connor Davenport, Luke Charsley and Léa Bruneau, Beaujon takes its name from the pseudonym under which Beatrice Warde published her 1926 essay challenging the attribution of the so-called Garamond types to Claude Garamont. The family spans 22 styles across multiple weights with Display and Text optical sizes, built with variable fonts in mind, covering 282 languages and 956 glyphs. Its formal references run from Parmentier's Garamond revival to Ganeau's mid-century Vendome, placing it within a century-long tradition of French Renaissance reinterpretation rather than any single historical source.
Classification
Beaujon is an old-style roman referencing French Renaissance printing types, specifically Parmentier's Garamond and Vendome by Ganeau, placing it squarely in the Garalde/humanist old-style tradition.