Garamond font
Garamond is an old-style serif by Claude Garamond, from the 1540s. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere its digital versions are sold by type foundries, and free revivals of it are below. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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EB Garamond
A revival of Claude Garamont’s types · Google Fonts: EB Garamond
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like EB Garamond02by description
Cormorant Garamond
A display Garamond with its name · Google Fonts: Cormorant Garamond
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Fonts like Cormorant Garamond03by description
Crimson Pro
In the tradition of Garamond-inspired types · Google Fonts: Crimson Pro
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Fonts like Crimson Pro04by description
Crimson Text
Its description names Garamond as its model · Google Fonts: Crimson Text
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Fonts like Crimson Text05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Fraunces06by class
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Fonts like Cinzel07by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cormorant08by class
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Fonts like Buenard
Not measured against Garamond: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Garamond or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Garamond
- Designed by
- Claude GaramondSource: Wikipedia: Garamond
- First issued
- the 1540sSource: Wikipedia: Garamond
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Garamond
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: GaramondSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Adobe Fonts, as Adobe Garamond and Garamond Premier
- Also
- Garamond names many typefaces after the types Claude Garamond cut in 16th-century Paris; Microsoft Office includes Monotype’s Garamond.Source: Wikipedia: Garamond , Microsoft: font list
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
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Questions about Garamond
Is Garamond free?
The design is old enough to be revived freely, and free revivals of Garamond are on this page. Its commercial digital versions are paid (Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel), sold by type foundries. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Garamond?
Garamond was designed by Claude Garamond, and first issued in the 1540s.
Can I use Garamond in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Garamond is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Garamond isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, EB Garamond, Cormorant Garamond and Crimson Pro are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Garamond?
FontKind hasn’t measured Garamond: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are EB Garamond, Cormorant Garamond and Crimson Pro. Beside them, Fraunces, Cinzel and Cormorant are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Garamond.