Benutzer:Liebeskind/EB Garamond

Schriftart	EB Garamond
Kategorie	Serif
Schriftklassifikation	Französische Renaissance-Antiqua (Gruppe II)
Schriftdesigner	Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon, Georg Mayr-Duffner, Octavio Pardo and others
Veröffentlichung	2011

Die EB Garamond ist (Stand 2018) die einzige freie und quelloffene Implementierung von Claude Garamonts Antiquaschrift und den zugehörigen kursiven, griechischen and kyrillischen Schriftschnitten von Robert Granjon. Der Name der Schrift ist ein Akronym für Egenolff-Berner-Garamond, was dem Umstand geschuldet ist, dass die Formen der Lettern dem 1592 gedruckten Egenolff-Berner-Schriftmuster entnommen sind.

A part of the Egenolff-Berner specimen printed in 1592 showing the original cuts by Garamont and Granjon.

Illustration of the short tailed versus the long tailed Q.

Illustration of the right (upper example) and the wrong (lower example) use of the optical sizes.

Implementierung

2011 veröffentlichte der österreichische Designer Georg Mayr-Duffner die EB Garamond unter der Open Font License. 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. It shows Garamont’s roman and Granjon’s italic fonts at different sizes. The Greek and the Cyrillic characters are based on Robert Granjon’s work as well. In addition the font includes OpenType features such as swash italic capitals and schoolbook alternates. Duffner’s intention was to include multiple optical sizes. As of 2014 his implementation included fonts based on the 8 and 12 point forms from the 1592 specimen, but lacked the bold font faces. As Georg Mayr-Duffner couldn’t complete the bold weights for personal reasons, Google comissioned the Spanish type designer Octavio Pardo to continue the project. As of 2018 Pardo’s implementation includes 5 weights (Regular, Medium, Semi-Bold, Bold and Extra-Bold), both in regular and italic style.

Technische Details

Mayr-Duffner hat die EB Garamond ursprünglich in FontForge mit den Speicherformaten SFDIR und UFO für die Schriftartquelltexte implementiert. Octavio Pardo ist auf den proprietären Fonteditor Glyphs umgestiegen, der Multiple Master Fonts unterstützt. Pardos Implementierung basiert nämlich auf den beiden Masterschnitten Regular und Bold. Die anderen Schriftschnitte sind mit Hilfe der Funktionen von Glyphs von diesen beiden Schnitten abgeleitet. The letter forms and the kerning of Pardo’s Regular are identical with Mayr-Duffner’s EB Garamond 12. The source of the fonts is drawn with cubic Bézier curves, thus the OTF-version (CFF-style) version of the compiled fonts should be preferred over the TTF-version, as TTF requires quadratic Bézier curves which have to be generated by lossy conversion during the compilation from the source files.

EBGaramond-Maths

EBGaramond-Maths is a package for LaTeX that provides a version of the EB Garamond 12 for mathematics. Its maintainer is Clea F. Rees.

Garamond-Math

Garamond-Math is an additional OpenType font file for the EB Garamond family containing symbols for mathematics. The file is provided by Yuansheng Zhao.

Reception

The prominent typeface designer Erik Spiekermann described the EB Garamond as “one of the best open source fonts”.

Availability

Georg Mayr-Duffner’s implementation lacking the bold faces is still available from his GitHub repository. The newer implementation can be downloaded as OTF- and TTF-files from Octavio Pardo’s repository and is also available for embedding on Google Fonts.

Another distribution of EB Garamond providing the up to date version as OpenType files and in formats needed for LaTeX can be obained from the CTAN font mirror.

References

{{reflist|30em}} {{free and open-source typography}} [[Category:Open-source typefaces]] [[Category:Latin-script typefaces]] [[Category:Greek typefaces]] [[Category:Cyrillic typefaces]] [[Category:IPA typefaces]] [[Category:Typefaces with optical sizes]] [[Category:Typefaces with text figures]] [[Category:Free software Unicode typefaces]] [[Category:Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2011]]