EB Garamond

Serif old-style by Georg Duffner #62 on Google Fonts
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About EB Garamond

EB Garamond is Georg Duffner's open-source revival of the sixteenth-century types of Claude Garamond, one of the most influential typeface designers in Western printing history, based closely on the specimen printed by Conrad Berner in 1592. The variable weight axis covers a range from regular to bold, and the family's extensive script support — Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese — makes it unusually versatile for a typeface so deeply rooted in the Renaissance humanist tradition. It brings scholarly elegance and historical authority to book design, academic publishing, and editorial contexts that prize typographic heritage.

Character Map

AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMm
NnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
0123456789
!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;':",.<>?

Weight Waterfall (5)

400 Regular
500 Medium
600 SemiBold
700 Bold
800 ExtraBold

How to Use

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=EB+Garamond:wght@500;600;700;800;400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=EB+Garamond:wght@500;600;700;800;400&display=swap');
font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif;
brew install --cask font-eb-garamond

Details

Category
Serif
Style
old-style
Weights
5
Italic
✓
Korean
✗
Designer
Georg Duffner
License
OFL
Version
Popularity
#62

License Usage

Web useAllowed
PrintAllowed
Video / BroadcastAllowed
PackagingAllowed
App embeddingAllowed
Brand / LogoAllowed
ModificationAllowed

OFL — Free for personal & commercial use

Language Support

cyrillic cyrillic-ext greek greek-ext latin latin-ext vietnamese

Best For

body-text book editorial

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Typography Concepts

  • Baseline

    The invisible line on which most letters sit. Descenders extend below the baseline.

  • Ascender

    The part of a lowercase letter that extends above the x-height, as in 'b', 'd', 'h', 'k', 'l'.

  • Contrast (Typography)

    The difference between the thickest and thinnest parts of a letter's strokes. High-contrast fonts (like Didot) have dramatic variation.

  • Ligature

    Two or more letters combined into a single glyph, like 'fi' or 'fl'. Common in serif fonts and coding fonts (e.g., Fira Code).

  • Glyph

    A single visual representation of a character. One character can have multiple glyphs (e.g., regular and italic 'a').

  • Bowl

    The curved stroke creating an enclosed counter in letters like 'b', 'd', 'p', 'q'. The shape varies widely between typefaces.

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