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EB Garamond 12

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.

Maintained by: Lockywolf
Keywords: fonts,garamond,garamont,otf
ChangeLog: otf-ebgaramond-fonts