Serif · Christian Thalmann

Cormorant Garamond

Your words – they follow you round the site

Case

Size72 px

Weight400 Regular

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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CSSfont-family: 'Cormorant Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

01 / Light table

Laid on top of Bacasime Antique

Cormorant Garamond on one light table with its two closest fonts, Bacasime Antique (75 out of 100) and Playfair (74). Bacasime Antique is 9% heavier, with more stroke contrast and an x-height 8% taller; Playfair is 45% wider and 25% heavier, with less stroke contrast.

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Ink shared with Cormorant GaramondBacasime Antique…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

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02 / Letters

The Cormorant Garamond alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

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With this font

Side by sideGaramond vs Times New Roman →Which Garamond, and how much smaller it sets.

03 / Weights

Cormorant Garamond in 5 weights

5 weights, 300–700, with italics · variable from 300 to 700

Variable weight, 300 to 700

300 Light, with its italic
400 Regular, with its italic
500 Medium, with its italic
600 Semibold, with its italic
700 Bold, with its italic

04 / Facts

Who made Cormorant Garamond, and can you use it?

Designer: Christian Thalmann
Kind: Serif
Styles: 5 weights, 300–700, with italics
Variable axes: Weight 300–700
On Google Fonts since: 2016
Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted or loaded from Google Fonts.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Cormorant Garamond is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Most likely. Under More fonts, in Sheets and Slides too. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: No. Install it from Google Fonts first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Yes. Built in, nothing to install. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Cormorant Garamond, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Cormorant Garamond under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages, read on 28 September 2026.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Cormorant Garamond on Google Fonts

05 / Measurements

Cormorant Garamond, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Cormorant Garamond. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 38.6% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 62.5% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.62lowercase against capitals
Width: 44.1% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 33%letter box filled
Contrast: 3.57 : 1high stroke contrast

How we measure →

Where it stands among serifs

Ranked against all 354 serifs on FontKind

x-heightSmaller than 95% of serifs
WidthNarrower than 89% of serifs
InkLighter than 90% of serifs
ContrastMore contrast than 88% of serifs

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Cormorant Garamond

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

Cormorant Garamond's own familyCormorantCormorant SCCormorant UnicaseCormorant InfantCormorant Upright

All 100 fonts similar to Cormorant Garamond →Compare side by side →Get Cormorant Garamond on Google Fonts

07 / Swap

Swap Cormorant Garamond without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Fallback while it loads

Until Cormorant Garamond loads, this sets Times New Roman in its place at 97.3% of its size, so running text keeps Cormorant Garamond’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond Fallback';
  src: local('Times New Roman');
  size-adjust: 97.33%;
  ascent-override: 94.93%;
  descent-override: 29.49%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond', 'Cormorant Garamond Fallback', serif;

08 / Pairs

Used together with Cormorant Garamond

Of the 55,522 home pages that load Cormorant Garamond, the share that load each font too, and how that compares with chance.

Same page, not which sets the headings · HTTP Archive , 1 September 2026

More than chanceProza Libre 22×Cormorant Upright 19×Cormorant SC 18×

Fonts that go with Cormorant Garamond: pairs and trios →The pairs sites choose most →

Pair checkerCormorant Garamond + any fontHow many of the 6,276,350 home pages counted load the two together, and how that compares with chance.Check this font with any other

09 / Questions

Questions about Cormorant Garamond

Answered from its licence, Google Fonts and each app’s own font list

Is Cormorant Garamond free for commercial use?

Yes. Cormorant Garamond is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install Cormorant Garamond?

FontKind doesn’t host Cormorant Garamond’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file. It holds two variable files, one for the uprights and one for the italics, and a static folder with a file per style: install one set or the other, not both. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open, Word included.

Is Cormorant Garamond in Microsoft Word?

Not until you install it: Cormorant Garamond isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. On Windows, its weights beyond Regular and Bold show as fonts of their own, such as Cormorant Garamond Light and Cormorant Garamond SemiBold. For someone who hasn’t installed it, turn on Embed fonts in the file in Word’s save options: its licence allows that.

Is Cormorant Garamond in Google Docs?

Most likely. Search for Cormorant Garamond under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.

Is Cormorant Garamond in Figma?

Yes: Cormorant Garamond is in Figma’s font menu with all five weights and their italics, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.

How many weights does Cormorant Garamond have?

Cormorant Garamond comes in five weights: Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), SemiBold (600) and Bold (700), each with an italic. It is a variable font: it takes any weight from 300 to 700.

Who designed Cormorant Garamond?

Cormorant Garamond was designed by Christian Thalmann. It has been on Google Fonts since June 2016. Christian Thalmann also made Ysabeau Office, Ysabeau SC, Ysabeau and two more on FontKind.

What fonts are similar to Cormorant Garamond?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Bacasime Antique (75), Playfair (74) and Bona Nova (71), out of 100. Next to Cormorant Garamond, Bacasime Antique is 9% heavier, with more stroke contrast and an x-height 8% taller. Its own family, listed apart, adds Cormorant, Cormorant SC, Cormorant Unicase and two more. See all 100 fonts like Cormorant Garamond.