EB Garamond

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400EB Garamond Regular Italic
• Medium 500EB Garamond Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600EB Garamond SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700EB Garamond Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800EB Garamond ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

EB 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 EB Garamond

EB Garamond is an old-style serif that reproduces the types of Claude Garamont. Its letterforms were taken from a scan of the Berner specimen, composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner at the Egenolff print office, which shows Garamont's roman and Granjon's italic; the initials EB stand for Egenolff-Berner. The specimen image shows moderate contrast, bracketed serifs, a small lowercase with long ascenders, and numerals that rise and fall like lowercase letters. Georg Duffner began the project, and this version was led by Octavio Pardo. Since November 2019 the family has been a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 800: five named weights, Regular to ExtraBold, each with an italic, for ten styles. Its 3,107 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where EB Garamond works

Books and long essays

The design follows a sixteenth-century book type, with old-style numerals that blend into running text.

Academic papers and theses

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic in one family let quotations in those scripts match the main text.

Poetry and literary journals

The italic follows Granjon's model in the Berner specimen and gives titles and emphasis a calligraphic voice.

Invitations and certificates

Capitals with fine bracketed serifs suit formal lines set at moderate sizes.

Chapter titles

SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold provide darker headings that keep the same historical forms.

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
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-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 EB 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 EB 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: "EB Garamond";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/EBGaramond-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "EB Garamond";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/EBGaramond-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves EB 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=EB+Garamond:ital,wght@0,400..800;1,400..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular is the lightest weight

The axis starts at 400; there is no light cut.

Small lowercase

The lowercase is low relative to the capitals in the specimen, so text looks smaller than a screen sans at the same size.

Two variable files

Upright and italic are separate variable files, each spanning 400 to 800.

FAQs

Collections with EB Garamond

• Fonts for résumés and CVs

  Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

• Serif fonts for academic and scholarly writing

  Text families with very large character sets for theses, journals and critical editions: Greek, Cyrillic, phonetic and historical characters.

• Old-style and revival serif fonts for books

  Digital revivals of Renaissance, baroque and later book types, and new designs in the old-style tradition, most with italics, for novels, essays and fine printing.

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