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.
