#ebc-garamond posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/ebc-garamond/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #ebc-garamond. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:19:59 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ After a decently long stint with Literata as the font on this site, I’ve switched to EBC Garamond. I... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2024/9.1/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2024/9.1/ Sun, 01 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMT After a decently long stint with Literata as the font on this site, I’ve switched to EBC Garamond. It’s my personal fork of the 8 pt size of EB Garamond — I like thicker fonts that don’t feel quite so digital, and the 8 pt version has that. I’ve fixed some glyph collisions (in the small caps), modified some of the glyphs I wasn’t happy with (widening the /p/, for example), turned off some default ligatures, and fine-tuned the kerning. This is still very much a work in progress and there are still changes I want to make, but it feels ready enough for use here.

A note on process: I opened the original SFDs from the repo in FontForge and exported UFOs. I’m using Fontra (which I’m quite liking, by the way) to edit the glyphs, and I hand-edit the OpenType feature definitions in Vim. I use fontmake to generate OTFs and pyftsubset to convert them to WOFF2. And I have a little testbed HTML file that I use to check in-browser whether I’m happy with the changes. It’s a decent dev experience.

And goodness, this is fun. I’m having a blast.

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