Commercial · Serif · Adobe
Garamond Premier
Garamond Premier is a licensed font from Adobe: Complete family of 34 fonts: $299.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Garamond Premier is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Robert Slimbach, Claude Garamond
- Styles
- 34
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 34 fonts: $299.00 USD (Individual Styles from $35.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Robert Slimbach's second Garamond for Adobe with optical sizes, drawn after study of Garamond's surviving punches at the Plantin-Moretus museum; 34 styles.
Free alternatives to Garamond Premier
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Garamond Premier is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The EB Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not EB Garamond.
derived
A community revival of Claude Garamont's mid-sixteenth-century types, drawn from the 1592 Berner specimen; the closest open Garamond.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cormorant Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cormorant Garamond.
derived
Cormorant's Garamond styles are a display-oriented reading of the Garamond model; sharper and higher-contrast, best above text sizes.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Crimson Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Crimson Text.
same classification
A book face in the tradition of Garamond-inspired old-style types, with small caps and old-style figures.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Crimson Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Crimson Pro.
same classification
A contemporary Garalde with eight weights and a variable font; rounder and more open than the classic Garamonds.
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