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About Better EB Garamond Font
Better EB Garamond is a serif font designed by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo. It includes 3218 glyphs, a regular weight, OTF (CFF) format, and 588 languages. Better EB Garamond is free to download; check the license details on this page before commercial use. Serif fonts like Better EB Garamond work best for body text, editorial layouts, book covers, and classic branding.
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Classic, Refined, Serif
- Use Case
- Editorial, Print
- Ideal For
- book covers, long-form text, and traditional branding
- Pairs With
- a clean sans-serif for captions
Better EB Garamond Specifications
| Font Family | Better EB Garamond |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | Better EB Garamond Regular |
| Version | 1.000 |
| Weight | 400 (Regular) |
| Glyph Count | 3218 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | BetterEBGaramond-Regular |
| Designer | Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo |
| Format | OTF (CFF) |
| File Size | 487.3 KB |
OpenType Features
Better EB Garamond ships with 19 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).
- Small capitals from capitals
- Case-sensitive forms
- Discretionary ligatures
- Fractions
- Historical forms
- Historical ligatures
- Standard ligatures
- Lining figures
- Old-style figures
- Ordinals
- Petite capitals
- Proportional figures
- Scientific inferiors
- Small capitals
- Subscripts
- Superscripts
- Swashes
- Tabular figures
- Stylistic sets (7)
Languages Supported
Better EB Garamond supports 588 languages.
How to Install Better EB Garamond Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Better EB Garamond font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Better EB Garamond is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Better EB Garamond Font?
Better EB Garamond Font is a versatile serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting sans-serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.
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Better EB Garamond Font
by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team Β· Updated September 2026
Better EB Garamond Font is a serif typeface by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo, ideal for logos, invitations, branding, and creative projects.