payment: DESIGNER

license: OFL
url: http://www.georgduffner.at
category: serif
subsets: menu,latin,latin-ext,cyrillic+latin,cyrillic-ext+latin,vietnamese+latin

family: EB Garamond

designer: Georg Duffner
originaldesigner: Claude Garamont

profiledescriptionlicense: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
profiledescriptionlicenseurl: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
approved: true
description: <p>Garamont’s fonts have set a \
  milestone, on which font designers have been \
  recurring 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 design 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.</p> \
  <p>Why another Garamond? The Garamonds are \
  probably the most copied typefaces in \
  the world. There are indeed lots of \
  excellent Garamond fonts, also such that \
  try to approach the original in the same \
  way as EB Garamond does. In the world of \
  free software, however, only few \
  Garamond-inspired fonts exist, and as far \
  as I know, none with the scope of EB \
  Garamond. I know that competition is hard \
  in this field, and these fonts won’t be \
  able to stand up to their commercial \
  counterparts for quite some time. \
  Nevertheless, it's time for the \
  open source community to have a classical \
  Garamond and I promise, I’ll try hard \
  to learn and give my best.</p>

# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/ebgaramond/;
# fontforge -lang=ff -script menusubset-ebg.ff EBGaramond-Regular.ttf;
# fontforge EBGaramond-Regular.ttf.menu.ttf;
# echo "now remove the license from the font file and regenerate menu.ttf by hand";
# mv menu.ttf EBGaramond-Regular.menu;
# ~/googlefontdirectory/tools/chars/showchars.py EBGaramond-Regular.menu;

# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/ebgaramond/; \
# rm *.nam *.log *.latin *.latin-ext *.cyrillic+latin *.cyrillic-ext+latin *.greek+latin *.greek-ext+latin; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/; \
# for family in ebgaramond; do \
#    for font in `ls -1 $family/*ttf | cut -d. -f1`; do \
#        for subset in \
#            latin latin-ext \
#            cyrillic+latin cyrillic-ext+latin
#            vietnamese+latin; do \
#            echo subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip --namelist --script \
#                --subset=$subset $font.ttf $font.$subset;
#            python tools/subset/subset.py  --null --nmr --roundtrip \
#                --namelist --script --subset=$subset \
#                $font.ttf $font.$subset > $font.$subset.log; \
#        done; \
#    done; \
# done; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/ebgaramond/; \
