Garamont’s fonts have set a milestone, on which font designers happen to be recurring ever considering the fact that. EB Garamond is an open supply project to create a revival of Claude Garamont’s popular humanist typeface from the mid-16th century. Its style reproduces the original design by Claude Garamont: The supply for the letterforms is actually a scan of a specimen generally known as the “Berner specimen”, which, composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor in the Egenolff print office, shows Garamont’s roman and Granjon’s italic fonts at distinct sizes. Therefore the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond.
Why a further Garamond? The Garamonds are likely the most copied typefaces inside the world. There are actually indeed plenty of exceptional Garamond fonts, also such that attempt to method the original inside the same way as EB Garamond does. Inside the globe of no cost computer software, nonetheless, only couple of Garamond-inspired fonts exist, and as far as I know, none with all the scope of EB Garamond. I understand that competition is really hard within this field, and these fonts won’t be capable of stand up to their industrial counterparts for quite some time. Nonetheless, it really is time for the open supply community to possess a classical Garamond and I promise, I’ll try tough to find out and give my finest.
