Cormorant Garamond

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Cormorant Garamond Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Cormorant Garamond Regular Italic
• Medium 500Cormorant Garamond Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Cormorant Garamond SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Cormorant Garamond Bold Bold Italic

Cormorant Garamond is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Cormorant Garamond

Cormorant Garamond is a serif family and one of the nine visual styles of Cormorant, a display type project by Christian Thalmann of Catharsis Fonts in Zurich. The official notes say the project took its inspiration from the work of Claude Garamont, but that no particular font served as a model and most glyphs were drawn from scratch. The specimen shows very fine hairlines, sharp bracketed serifs, a small x-height with long ascenders, and numerals that rise and drop like lowercase letters. Even the Bold stays comparatively light. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700; Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold each have an italic, ten styles across two files. Its 2,831 glyphs cover Latin, extended Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets. Cormorant Garamond is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cormorant Garamond works

Magazine headlines and pull quotes

Hairline strokes and sharp serifs are detail that shows at large sizes, the use the Cormorant project was drawn for.

Book covers and title pages

Light 300 gives a title a delicate line, with SemiBold or Bold for the author's name.

Stationery and invitations

Old-style numerals blend dates and addresses into lines of mixed-case text.

Titles in Cyrillic

The Cyrillic subset carries the same contrast into Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian headings.

Captions in a display-led layout

Medium and SemiBold thicken the hairlines enough for a few lines of text under a large title.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Cormorant Garamond

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Cormorant Garamond on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Cormorant Garamond";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CormorantGaramond-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cormorant Garamond";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CormorantGaramond-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Cormorant Garamond", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Cormorant Garamond with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300..700;1,300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

A display design

The Cormorant project is described by its designer as a display family; the thin strokes fade at small sizes.

Old-style numerals in the specimen

The figures shown have ascenders and descenders instead of sitting at capital height.

Greek is not covered

Subsets are Latin, extended Latin, Cyrillic, extended Cyrillic and Vietnamese.

Two variable files

Roman and italic each hold the 300 to 700 weight range.

FAQs

Collections with Cormorant Garamond

• Elegant serif fonts for wedding invitations

  Light, high-contrast and classical serif typefaces for invitation text, names in capitals and formal stationery.

• Fonts for restaurant and café menus

  Serifs, scripts and narrow display faces for menus: a heading face with character and a text face that stays readable in low light.

• Fonts that support Vietnamese

  Open-license families that include the stacked diacritics Vietnamese needs, among them several designed in or for Vietnam.

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