EB Garamond is intended to be an excellent, classical, Garamond. It is a community project to create a revival of Claude Garamont’s famous humanist typefaces from the mid-16th century. This digital version reproduces the original design by Claude Garamont closely: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a specimen known as the “Berner specimen,” which was composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, the son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office. This specimen shows Garamont’s roman and Granjon’s italic types at different sizes. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond.
Is it somehow related to https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond/ ?
Interesting, thanks for the link. I don’t understand why there are two similar projects.
Octavio Pardo’s typeface is a fork of Georg Mayr-Duffner’s typeface with the addition of bold faces for the inclusion in Google Fonts. See Wikipedia.