Jacques Sabon (born in Lyon, 1535; died in Frankfurt-am-Main, ca.1580-1590[1]) was a French typefounder. He worked with Christian Egenolff in Frankfurt in 1555 and Christophe Plantin of Antwerp in 1565. He is associated with the forms of roman type which were being developed by Claude Garamond and others. On Garamond's death, Plantin and Sabon acquired much of his collection of type, and it is sometimes unclear which were Sabon's own design, and which Garamond's. After Sabon's death, his widow married Konrad Berner.
- ^ Sources vary, giving date of death as 1580 or 1590
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