Mwenz brought this to my attention the other day. This free (huge) family is based on Garamond, and in my opinion, it is one of the cleanest, well-drawn homage fonts I've ever seen. The only things I needed to do to it were to tighten the leading, and to add a few kerning pairs.
Cormorant is a free display type family developed by Christian Thalmann (Catharsis Fonts). It comprises a total of 45 font files spanning 9 different styles (Roman, Italic, Infant, Infant Italic, Garamond, Garamond Italic, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, Unicase) and 5 weights (Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold).
SIL Garamond Collection
Particularly welcome and delightful is the "Unicase" version in three weights:
Also, I've not recently seen both a "Regular" and a "Book" version that are truly different weights in a collection. Apparently, the Book version is about 50 units heftier than the regular version. for the sake of measurement comparison, Regular and Book weights are usually 300 for Light, 400 for Book, and 500 for Medium. So the book version is a very comfortable split between normal and medium wight.
If you've had to "rough it" with only 3rd party knockoffs in your collection, I suggest that this expertly cobbled version of Garamond might be your first step toward a truly epic, professional personal typecase.
Thanks, mwenz!
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