Duffner's intention was to include multiple optical sizes. In addition the font includes OpenType features such as swash italic capitals and schoolbook alternates. The Greek characters are based on Robert Granjon's work as well.
It shows Garamont's roman and Granjon's italic fonts at different sizes. Mayr-Duffner took the letterforms from a scan of a specimen known as the “Berner specimen” which was printed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office. In 2011 the Austrian designer Georg Mayr-Duffner released the EB Garamond under the Open Font License. Implementation history Illustration of the right (upper example) and the wrong (lower example) use of the optical sizes
Its name is shortening of Egenolff– Berner Garamond which refers to the fact that the letter forms are taken from the Egenolff–Berner specimen printed in 1592. Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon, Georg Mayr-Duffner, Octavio Pardo and othersĪ part of the Egenolff–Berner specimen printed in 1592 showing the original cuts by Garamont and Granjon (the second type, mislabelled as 'Petit Canon de Garamond') ĮB Garamond is a free and open source implementation of Claude Garamond’s typeface, Garamond, and the matching Italic, Greek and Cyrillic characters designed by Robert Granjon.
