EB-Garamond VS EBGaramond12

A lot of famous typefaces from the past have their open-source digitisations, e.g. Garamond, Centaur or Baskerville. Yet there are some still waiting for a proper open-source release. We don't have Romain du Roi, Cloister) (even though we have the beautiful Cloister initials by Goudy) or Benedictine.

The version that Octavio fixed and extended was commissioned by Google, so the original EB-Garamond intact, and now Georg is trying to merge the two versions to release the final v2.

LibreOffice Writer 7.5.0 and with EB Garamond N°8 font

Check out FontForge tool. And then, see this example project for Garamond https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond

Thank you! I found a FOSS version of Garamond here on GitHub

Eb Garamond

The font need to merge all the changes made by Octavio, which is taking long time for Georg to finish and release the fixed version.

These are based on work done by a friend (he also changes the color; I don't). NB: I use the version of the font EB Garamond found at the Github repository of Octavio Pardo. This is the same version that is loaded with usepackage{ebgaramond}. The liturgy font is available here (it is a free font and can be loaded to the Overleaf directory).

EB Garamond [ https://github.com/octaviopardo/EBGaramond12 ]

In the version shipped with TeXLive, however, this seems to no longer be fully functioning (and instead just changes all U to V and all u to v, without any change of non-initial v to u). There doesn't appear to be any good documentation of that version readily available. (This EBGaramond12 github is the one in TeXLive, according to the output of otfinfo.) It's not obvious what the stylstic sets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 7 are doing, but none of them are controling the u substitution like SS02 does for the original. If I load the original font via fontspec, I do get the appropriate initial u-to-v substitution and non-initial-v-to-u substitution)

I'm not designer or typographer, when I found EB Garamond font and tested it I was pleased with the output result and how the font looks good on my produced and printed PDF files, I used both versions from Octavio Pardo and Georg Duffner, but two people who are indulged in commercial printing told me that the font is not professional and I should buy a well made paid Garamond font to see the difference, so what is the benefits of paid one over the free one ?

On Microsoft Word you get Monotype Garamond. Doesn’t have opentype features (not even ligatures, or old-style figures). There are better alternatives imho, even the open source EB Garamond.