Garamond

The roman type of the French Renaissance. Several of the revivals sold as Garamond were in fact drawn from Jean Jannon's types, cut about eighty years later.

Designer
Claude Garamond
Year
1530s
Where
Paris
Free stand-in
EB Garamond
In the library
9 styles
Download EB Garamond, freeGoogle FontsGaramond itself is licensed. EB Garamond is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.

01Set it yourself

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02Put it to work

Your words from the specimen, set in EB Garamond in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.

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Tip. Headline in EB Garamond, standing in for Garamond, body copy in EB Garamond. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.

03Every character

AU+0041 · EB Garamond 600
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20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.

04The free stand-in: EB Garamond

Why EB Garamond. A direct digitisation of Claude Garamond's originals. Garamond itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in EB Garamond, which is free to use on the web and in print.

EB Garamond, on its own. A direct digitisation of Claude Garamond's sixteenth-century romans. The reference Garamond.

If Garamond is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.

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05The styles built on Garamond

Luxury MinimalOpen the style →Gen-X Soft ClubOpen the style →CottagecoreOpen the style →Dark AcademiaOpen the style →JapandiOpen the style →Architectural PostmodernismOpen the style →Indie GroovyOpen the style →RomantasyOpen the style →Magical RealismOpen the style →

06What it pairs with

Blackletter GothicUnifrakturMaguntiaSet in EB Garamond underneath: the body copy a headline in UnifrakturMaguntia needs to sit on.Try it in the type lab →

07More serif faces

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