EB Garamond is intended to be an excellent, classical, Garamond. It is a community project to create a revival of Claude Garamont's famous humanist typefaces from the mid-16th century.
This digital version reproduces the original design by Claude Garamont closely: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a specimen known as the "Berner specimen," which was composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, the son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office. This specimen shows Garamont's roman and Granjon's italic types at different sizes. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond.
Why another Garamond? That typeface is a key moment in the history of typography, and European type designers have been reacting to this work ever since. It is probably the most revived typeface in the world and many are excellent. In the world of free/libre culture, however, only a few Garamond-inspired types exist, and none share the scope of this project.
In November 2019, the family has been updated to a variable font family.
How do you install the EB Garamond Font?
Download the zip file and extract it to a folder. In the folder, you will see a list of all EB Garamond font variants.
To install in Windows:
- Double click on any of the fonts, which will open the Windows font examples
- On that window you will see two buttons: "Print" and "Install"
- Press Install and the font will be ready to go on all applications (may need to restart the OS or application, depending on where you want to use it)
To install in macOS:
- Double-click the font in the Finder window
- Click Install in the font preview window that opens
- The font will appear in the Font Book app and will be available for use in your apps
