Garnet is a rare typewriter face, made digital from analog samples gathered with great care by Coniglio Type. A time and place; type and life. Garnet Euro Typewriter is the first new release by designer Joseph Coniglio in over 5 years. It is contemporary designer type, made from the struck steel hammers of an art deco san serif face transferred from a mechanical 1926 Royal Portable typewriter.

It has an obsessively complete commercial roman character set. More…

Anna Conroy of Type Heritage, LLC, Philadelphia comments on Garnet Euro Typewriter and its new place in time today: “Wow! nice lookin’ face cowboy! —Perfect, somewhere between Cable; [Rudolph Koch, 1927] which was about the first transatlantic telegraph cable –not ITC Kabel with raised x-height; and Futura [Paul Renner, 1928].

Yup, has that great “Monopoly Game” question mark -- and all on a period-piece typewriter! You should have no trouble grafting that sorely needed Euro symbol.” –And he very well did!