NewG8 is an open font family based on the original designs of Claude Garamond.
This project is derived from Michael Sharpe’s modifications to (URW)++’s Garamond No. 8, itself bearing close resemblance to Linotype/Adobe’s Stempel Garamond.
The project is forked from probonopd’s TTF conversions. Additional modifications include:
- Tidied character mappings, incorporating OpenType features (old-style figures, small capitals, f-ligatures, one stylistic set (enables a long-tailed Q)).
- Unified the package into four fonts.
- Tidied kerning pairs.
- Addition of glyphs with diacritical marks as provided in the original packages (partial).
There is no change to the glyphs’ designs from 2017, with the exception of moving the tilde (~) to become vertically centred.
By default, f-ligatures are not included in the common ligature tables (liga) for the regular and bold fonts, but are included in the italic and bold italic fonts. If you wish to use f-ligatures in the regular and bold fonts too, please toggle discretionary ligatures (dlig).
With common ligatures enabled:
With discretionary ligatures enabled:
Fonts in TTF format can be downloaded from the releases page.
Modified version of garamondNo8 (Copyright (URW)++, Copyright 2000 by (URW)++ Design and Development).
Modified kerning data was based initially on a package by Gael Garoquaux. This was subsequently manually adjusted in Fontforge by Bruce S.C. Lu.
Modifications are Copyright 2012–2017 by Michael Sharpe (msharpe@ucsd.edu) and Copyright 2021–2024 Bruce S.C. Lu, and are subject to the Aladdin Free Public Licence.