Specimen
Handgloves
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
5 weights · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of EB Garamond
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Low
0.622
stroke weight
10% of cap height
0.102
contrast
High
0.622
letter width
Condensed
0.833
Web embed
Use EB Garamond on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=EB+Garamond:wght@400;500;600;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* EB Garamond */
body {
font-family: 'EB Garamond', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- EB Garamond
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Georg Duffner, Octavio Pardo
- Added to Google Fonts
- March 23, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the EB Garamond font
EB Garamond is a serif typeface designed by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo, first released to Google Fonts on March 2011. It ships with 5 weights · italic · variable and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a low x-height at 62% of the cap height, condensed letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare EB Garamond against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether EB Garamond is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.