Description:

Garamont’s fonts represent a milestone in the history of type design,
a touchstone to which font designers have been returning ever since.
EB Garamond is an open source project to create a revival of Claude
Garamont’s famous humanist typeface from the mid-16th century. 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. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner
Garamond.