The Garamonds are probably the most copied typefaces in the world. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond. Its design reproduces the original by Claude Garamont: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a specimen known as the “Berner specimen”, which, composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office, shows Garamont’s roman and Granjon’s italic fonts at different sizes. EB Garamond is an open source project to create a revival of Claude Garamont’s famous humanist typeface from the mid-16 th century.
Touchstone to which font designers have been returning ever since.
This project is led by Georg Duffner, and developed at github.Garamont’s fonts represent a milestone in the history of type design, a In the world of free/libre culture, however, only a few Garamond-inspired types exist, and none share the scope of this project. It is probably the most revived typeface in the world and many are excellent. 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. This specimen shows Garamont’s roman and Granjon’s italic types at different sizes. 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. It is a community project to create a revival of Claude Garamont’s famous humanist typefaces from the mid-16th century. EB Garamond is intended to be an excellent, classical, Garamond.
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