10.4 Garalde (Oldstyle) serif fonts
Named after two influential type designers from the period, Claude Garamond (1499– 1561) and Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), Garalde fonts first appeared at the end of the 15th century. There is now less calligraphic influence because typesetting began to be viewed as different from writing. Still, we do have a tilted axis in many characters, but it is subtler and less obvious than in Humanist typefaces. The serifs become more carefully formed and on ascenders more wedge shaped. Characters are designed more proportionally, and there is now a greater contrast between thick and thin strokes.
10.4.1 Accanthis
The Accanthis family by Hirwen Harendal, which also incorporates some aspects of Humanist fonts (e.g., the tilted e), is suitable as an alternative to fonts such as Garamond, Galliard, and similar Garalde designs. It is offered in two weights with upright and italic characters. LaTEX support for all engines is provided through the package accanthis by Bob Tennent. The option scaled lets you select a scaling factor.
10.4.2 GFS Artemisia
GFS Artemisia is a slightly calligraphic general-purpose typeface designed by Takis Katsoulidis. LaTEX support for pdfTEX is provided through the package gfsartemisia, which sets the font up as and uses the txfonts1 for formulas. Alternatively, with the package gfsartemisia-euler it uses the euler package instead. Besides Latin languages, the family fully supports polytonic Greek.
10.4.3 Crimson, Crimson Pro, and Cochineal
The Crimson family of fonts has been designed by Sebastian Kosch in the tradition of beautiful Garalde oldstyle typefaces, such as Jan Tschichold’s (1902–1974) Sabon or Robert Slimbach’s Minion. Provided are upright and italic shapes in three weights. The family got extended by Jacques Le Bailly under the name Crimson Pro to cover a total of seven weights from thin to black; also oldstyle figures got added. Support for all TEX engines is provided by Bob Tennent through the package CrimsonPro. Michael Sharpe also extended the Crimson fonts by providing roughly 1500 additional glyphs (including polytonic Greek) so that all glyphs are available in all styles including bold Small Caps and different types of figures (the original Crimson had only lining tabular figures). This extension is distributed as Cochineal fonts, and
the LaTEX support package is called cochineal. Thus, his package is the better choice if you want small capitals or need Greek. The family also has matching mathematical fonts exhibited in Figure 12.2 on page 263.
10.4.4 Cormorant Garamont
Cormorant Garamond, designed by Christian Thalmann, is inspired by Claude Garamond’s work but not explicitly based on a particular set of specimens. Its intended usage is that of a display typeface, which is quite visible if set in normal body size because it then appears to be extremely light. Here is an example of regular and light weights at 20 points:
10.4.5 EB Garamond
EB Garamond, designed by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo, is one of the revivals of the fonts designed by Claude Garamond (1499–1561). The source for the letterforms is a scan of a text known as the “Egenolff-Berner specimen”, composed in the 16th century by Conrad Berner at the Egenolff print office, showing Garamond’s roman
10.4.6 Garamond Libre
The Garamond Libre fonts are an extended fork by D. Benjamin Miller from fonts originally developed by George Douros. They are another Garamond revival with the roman face following Claude Garamond’s (1499–1561) original design. The italics are from a 16th-century engraver too — not Garamond’s (no specimens have survived) but that of Robert Granjon (1513–1589). The upright Greek that is included in the OpenType fonts follow a design by Firmin Didot (1764–1836), while the Greek italics are based on a design by Alexander Wilson (??–1784). The fonts include support for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts, and if used with Unicode engines, you can also use the full IPA alphabet, Byzantine musical symbols, and various other glyphs that the limited font support with pdfTEX can not or only rudimentary provide.
LaTEX support for all engines is provided through the package garamondlibre by Bob Tennent. The package supports the usual options implemented by Bob; e.g., scaled lets you select a scaling factor, osf makes oldstyle numerals the default, etc.
10.4.7 URW Garamond No. 8
In the first quarter of the last century the Stempel Type Foundry released a Garamond adaption for hot-metal typesetting that has remained popular since. URW Garamond No. 8 is a freeware version based on this design and contributed by URW++ to the Ghostscript project under the AFP license. Because of this license, it is not automatically included in most TEX distributions but can be easily installed using the getnonfreefonts script. The design has relatively short descenders, allowing it to be used with little leading.
10.4.8 Gentium Plus
Gentium is an award-winning design by Victor Gaultney with the aim to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin- and Cyrillicbased alphabets as well as full support for polytonic and monotonic Greek.
LaTEX support for the pdfTEX is provided through the package gentium that makes the font the and also supports the option scaled.
10.4.9 Kp (Johannes Kepler) Roman
Kp Roman is inspired by Palatino and has matching sans serif and monospaced designs and a full set of math fonts. When used with pdfTEX, certain features, such as special ligatures or oldstyle numerals (shown below), can be activated by altering the family name as described on page 17; you can find the description of all three families and their NFSS classifications in Table 10.9 on page 18. If used with Unicode engines, the features can be activated through the typical feature sets as supported by fontspec. Examples with mathematics are shown in Figures 12.6 to 12.8 on pages 266–267.
10.4.10 Palatino (TeX Gyre Pagella)
Palatino, designed by Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), is one of the most widely used typefaces today [26]. You can feel the brush that created it, which gives it a lot of elegance. Although originally designed as a display typeface, due to its legibility, Palatino soon gained popularity as a text face as well.
TEX Gyre Pagella shown here is based on the URW Palladio L version of the font family (which is set up with the TEX Gyre tgpagella package). Typesetting samples with matching math fonts are shown in Figures 12.10 to 12.13 on pages 269–270.