EB Garamond

In addition the font includes OpenType features such as swash italic capitals and schoolbook alternates.

As Georg Mayr-Duffner couldn't complete the bold weights for personal reasons, Google commissioned the Spanish type designer Octavio Pardo[4] to continue the project.

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.

[5] Garamond-Math is an additional OpenType font file for the EB Garamond family containing symbols for mathematics.

Unfortunately the classic LaTeX font system cannot make use of all characters and OpenType features offered by EB Garamond, but this can be solved by using the XeTeX smartfont subsystem.

In order to access the smart font features of EB Garamond, some code has to be added to the document preamble.

A 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") [ 1 ]
Illustration of the right (upper example) and the wrong (lower example) use of the optical sizes
Illustration of the short-tailed versus the long-tailed Q. The long-tailed Q is part of the Stylistic Set 6.