EB Garamond font by Georg Duffner







TrueType Font

EB Garamond font comes in a regular (normal 400) weight as a roman style serif freeware TTF webfont.



This distribution archive includes the regular weight .ttf font file, the font license text file (OFL.txt) and this distribution archive info note .txt file.





This is a free font with commercial use allowed, licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. See the included aforementioned OFL.txt text file in this distribution archive for license specifics and details.







from the artist:

Garamont’s fonts have set a milestone, on which font designers have been recurring ever since. EB Garamond is an open source project to create a revival of Claude Garamont’s famous humanist typeface from the mid-16th century. Its design reproduces the original design by Claude Garamont: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a specimen known as the “Berner specimen”, which, composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office, shows Garamont’s roman and Granjon’s italic fonts at different sizes. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond.



Why another Garamond? The Garamonds are probably the most copied typefaces in the world. There are indeed lots of excellent Garamond fonts, also such that try to approach the original in the same way as EB Garamond does. In the world of free software, however, only few Garamond-inspired fonts exist, and as far as I know, none with the scope of EB Garamond. I know that competition is hard in this field, and these fonts won’t be able to stand up to their commercial counterparts for quite some time. Nevertheless, it's time for the open source community to have a classical Garamond and I promise, I’ll try hard to learn and give my best.







This particular TTF font distribution archive was downloaded from the freeware and shareware TrueType font repository, Font-Journal, at the following URL:

http://www.font-journal.com/fonts/13237/eb_garamond.php



This open source project has a development page at:

https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond





The artist's website is:

http://www.georgduffner.at/



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https://plus.google.com/104067145318343853729/about



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https://www.facebook.com/georg.duffner







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