Cormorant
Cormorant is a serif font in 5 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 15% narrower than the typical serif font. Last updated 5 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Cormorant
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Cormorant from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Cormorant itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 440.4 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 637 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 234 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | proportional (digit widths differ) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 36% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Serif |
Weights and styles
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Cormorant
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- Cormorant Garamond Regularidentical letter widths (0.3 units)
- Cormorant Infant Regularvery close widths (6.4 units)
- Cormorant Upright Regularsimilar widths (15.4 units)
- Libre Caslon Condensed Regularsimilar widths (29 units)
- Cormorant Unicase Regularsimilar widths (29.3 units)
- Cormorant SC Regularloosely similar widths (30.2 units)
- Libre Caslon Display Regularloosely similar widths (35.8 units)
- Crimson Text Regularloosely similar widths (35.9 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Cormorant?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Cormorant itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Cormorant free to use?
Cormorant is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.
+Which font is closest to Cormorant?
By measured letter widths, Cormorant Garamond is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 0.3 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Cormorant support?
It includes these character sets: Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Latin, Central European, Vietnamese.
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