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EB Garamond

EB Garamond carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families. Its regular file holds 3,247 glyphs, 4.6 times the median of the serifs (700). It lists seven script subsets, more than 96% of the serifs.

Outlines drawn from the EBGaramond file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	EB Garamond	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	704	747
Cap height (top of H)	653	700
x-height (top of x)	405	482
Descender (foot of p)	−285	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.62	0.70
Average lowercase width	437	514
Ink coverage, a–z	40.5%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Scheherazade New, Balthazar; just above: Grandiflora One, Suranna; level with: Benne

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Goudy Bookletter 1911, Benne; just above: Linden Hill, Fanwood Text; level with: Bacasime Antique

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 400 to 800, with a matching italic; five of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	400 to 800	545 families

ScriptsFamilies sharing each subset

Inside the file

In the measured file: 2,091 Unicode characters are mapped.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, swashes, case-sensitive forms and seven stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Benneequal x-height, narrower Fanwood Textshorter x-height, wider Linden Hillshorter x-height, same width Newsreadertaller x-height, wider Buenardtaller x-height, wider Cormorant Uprightshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the serif class

Ysabeautaller x-height, wider Ysabeau Officetaller x-height, wider Ysabeau Infanttaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against EB Garamond

Same designer

Octavio Pardo is credited on 7 other families in the library, from Ibarra Real Nova (2019) to Protest Strike (2023); the closest of them in x-height and width is Ibarra Real Nova.