Cormorant Font Family

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About

Cormorant is an original design for an extravagant display serif typeface inspired by the Garamond heritage, hand-drawn and produced by Catharsis Fonts. While traditional Garamond cuts make for exquisite reading at book sizes, they appear clumpy and inelegant at larger sizes. The design goal of Cormorant was to distill the æsthetic essence of Garamond, unfetter it from the limitations of metal printing, and allow it to bloom into its natural refined form at high definition.

Cormorant is characterized by scandalously small counters, razor-sharp serifs, dangerously smooth curves, and flamboyantly tall accents. While many implementations of Garamond at small optical sizes already exist (including the open-sourced EB Garamond by Georg Duffner), Cormorant aims for the sparsely populated niche of display-size counterparts that exploit the high resolution of contemporary screens and print media to the fullest.

While Cormorant's quality is most evident in titling and poster usage at the largest sizes, its Garamond genome renders it highly legible down to text sizes on high-resolution devices and in print.

Cormorant is a native 21st-century typeface making ample use of OpenType technology. Some OpenType features are applied automatically while you type, subtly improving the flow of the text. This includes kerning, standard ligatures, and contextual alternates. Other features are intended to be activated manually by the user, such as discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates, small capitals, and alternate figure sets. Note that not all text processors, design applications, or browsers support all OpenType features, and some applications may require the user to switch these features on manually (such as Microsoft Office).

License

  • Free for personal use
  • Free for commercial use
Cormorant is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)

Languages

Cormorant covers 52 languages:

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Indonesian
  • German
  • Javanese
  • Vietnamese
  • Turkish
  • Filipino
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Malay
  • Uzbek
  • Azerbaijani (Latin)
  • Dutch
  • Igbo
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)
  • Romanian
  • Somali
  • Swedish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Afrikaans
  • Catalan
  • Bosnian (Latin)
  • Kurdish (Latin)
  • Danish
  • Turkmen
  • Slovak
  • Albanian
  • Croatian
  • Finnish
  • Norwegian
  • Galician
  • Lithuanian
  • Occitan
  • Slovenian
  • Nynorsk
  • Irish
  • Latvian
  • Basque
  • Welsh
  • Estonian
  • Breton
  • Maltese
  • Luxembourgish
  • Icelandic
  • Maori
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Faroese

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2015
Date Created
35.04K
Kerning Pairs
24
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