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Garamont's fonts have set a milestone, on which font designers have
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been recurring ever since. EB Garamond is an open source project
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to create a revival of Claude Garamont's famous humanist typeface
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from the mid-16th century. Its design reproduces the original design
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by Claude Garamont: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a
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specimen known as the "Berner specimen", which, composed in 1592
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by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor
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at the Egenolff print office, shows Garamont's roman and Granjon
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italic fonts at different sizes. Hence the name of this project:
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Egenolff-Berner Garamond.
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The Garamonds are probably the most copied typefaces in the world.
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There are indeed lots of excellent Garamond fonts, also such that
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try to approach the original in the same way as EB Garamond does.
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In the world of free software, however, only few Garamond-inspired
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fonts exist, and as far as I know, none with the scope of EB
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Garamond. I know that competition is hard in this field, and these
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fonts won't be able to stand up to their commercial counterparts
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for quite some time. Nevertheless, it's time for the opensource
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community to have a classical Garamond and I promise, I'll try hard
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to learn and give my best.
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