EB Garamond Font Family

EB Garamond is a new typeface that is designed to be a great, traditional, Garamond. It is a community project for designing a modern clone of Claude Garamont’s humanist typefaces of the mid-sixteenth century. This digital version reproduces the original design by Claude Garamont closely: The original of the letterforms comes from a scan of a specimen called “Berner specimen” which was composed by Conrad Berner in the year 1592, he was the son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and the successor of Egenolff at the Egenolff’s printing office.

This piece demonstrates both roman and italic types of Garamont and Granjon respectively at various sizes. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond is a nice typeface with some nice characteristics but it is not very usable in practice.

Why another Garamond? That typeface is considered as one of the greatest in the history of typography and European type designers have been responding to this work ever since. It is probably the most cloned typeface in the world and many are good.

In the free/libre culture, only several types refer to Garammond and none of them is as vast as the given project.