EB Garamond

A free alternative to Garamond and Adobe Garamond

Georg Duffner, Octavio Pardo · 2011 · OFL-1.1 · Variable

The letterforms were traced from a scan of the Berner specimen, printed in 1592, which is among the closest surviving records of Claude Garamont's own types. That makes this an actual Garamond rather than something drawn in the style of one. The italic is a separate sixteenth-century design rather than a slanted roman, and the difference is visible in a single line.

Variable · 790 KB · 2 files

All weights in one file, for Figma, Illustrator, InDesign and the web.

Static · 2.2 MB · 10 files

One file per weight, works everywhere including older Word and Photoshop.

The license file is inside both zips.

Alphabets

Click the text above to set it in your own words.

Weight — 400

Specification

Designer
Georg Duffner, Octavio Pardo
Foundry
—
Released
2011
Category
Serif
Alternative to
Garamond, Adobe Garamond
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Book text, Body text, Academic writing, Invitations
Weights
400, 500, 600, 700, 800
Styles
Normal, Italic
Variable
Yes
Glyphs
3,247
Languages
Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
Download size
790 KB
Source
github.com/octaviopardo/EBGaramond12

Size ladder

96

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

64

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

40

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

24

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

16

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

12

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Characters

Uppercase

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z

Lowercase

  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • q
  • r
  • s
  • t
  • u
  • v
  • w
  • x
  • y
  • z

Numerals

  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

Punctuation & symbols

  • .
  • ,
  • :
  • ;
  • !
  • ?
  • '
  • "
  • ‘
  • ’
  • “
  • ”
  • (
  • )
  • [
  • ]
  • {
  • }
  • /
  • \
  • |
  • -
  • –
  • —
  • _
  • @
  • #
  • $
  • %
  • &
  • *
  • +
  • =
  • <
  • >
  • ~
  • ^
  • `
  • €
  • £
  • ¥
  • ©
  • ®
  • °
  • §
  • †
  • •
  • …

Use it on the web

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'EB Garamond';
  /* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
     files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
     size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
  src: url('/fonts/eb-garamond.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

License

OFL-1.1

You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.

Commercial use allowed

Designed by Georg Duffner, Octavio Pardo

Copyright 2017 The EB Garamond Project Authors (https://github.com/octaviopardo/EBGaramond12)

Read the full license text · What these licenses mean

The license file is included inside the download.

Questions

Is EB Garamond free for commercial use?
Yes. EB Garamond is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
Can I use EB Garamond in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in EB Garamond belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Georg Duffner, Octavio Pardo. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install EB Garamond?
Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. EB Garamond is a variable font: those files carry all 5 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — only reads the first weight and will show it as Regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 10 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
Does EB Garamond support Turkish?
Yes. EB Garamond includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
Does EB Garamond support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended and Vietnamese?
Yes. EB Garamond covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended and Vietnamese, across 3,247 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

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