EB Garamond
EB Garamond 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 30 June 2026.
Editing a PDF that uses EB Garamond
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 EB Garamond from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in EB Garamond itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 437.4 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 659.1 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 200 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | tabular (every digit is 480 units wide, so columns of numbers line up) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 32% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Serif |
Weights and styles
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to EB Garamond
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.
- Benne Regularvery close widths (14.5 units)
- Crimson Text Regularsimilar widths (29.7 units)
- Shafarik Regularloosely similar widths (32.2 units)
- Fanwood Text Regularloosely similar widths (32.9 units)
- Cormorant Garamond Regularloosely similar widths (36.7 units)
- Cormorant Regularloosely similar widths (36.9 units)
- Cormorant Infant Regularloosely similar widths (36.9 units)
- Libertinus Serif Regularloosely similar widths (37.4 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses EB Garamond?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in EB Garamond itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is EB Garamond free to use?
EB Garamond 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 EB Garamond?
By measured letter widths, Benne is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 14.5 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does EB Garamond support?
It includes these character sets: Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Latin, Central European, Vietnamese.
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