Cormorant garamond font free download: the ZIP below holds 2 font files with a variable weight axis and 3,241 glyphs, plus the OFL licence.
Yes — Cormorant Garamond is free for commercial use, including in books and long-form work you sell
Cormorant Garamond is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL). You can use it in client work, logos, products you sell, apps and print, without paying and without asking permission.
Cormorant is a one-person project: Christian Thalmann conceived, drew, spaced, kerned, programmed and interpolated the entire family himself. The full project spans 45 font files across nine visual styles — Roman, Italic, Infant, Garamond, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, Unicase and more. Cormorant Garamond is the Garamond-flavoured cut of that project. It is drawn as a display face, meaning the hairlines are finer and the contrast higher than a book serif would dare.
We read the license state from the font file itself rather than from a listing. The embedding permission flag (fsType) is 0 — Installable, the least restrictive value in the OpenType specification.
Quick facts
| Designer | Christian Thalmann |
| Added to Google Fonts | January 2017 |
| Version | Version 4.001 |
| License | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Commercial use | Yes, no attribution required |
Embedding (fsType) | 0 — Installable, unrestricted |
| Variable font | Yes — 1 axis (Weight) |
| Weights | 5 named (300 Light → 700 Bold) |
| Glyphs | 3,241 |
| Characters covered | 974 |
| OpenType features | 40 |
| Vietnamese support | Yes, full |
| Download size | 527 KB — 2 font files + OFL.txt |
Download Cormorant Garamond
What’s in the download
The download is a single ZIP containing 2 font files plus the licence:
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
| CormorantGaramond-Italic[wght].ttf | Variable italic — 1 axis: Weight |
| CormorantGaramond[wght].ttf | Variable upright — 1 axis: Weight |
OFL.txt travels with the files — keep it in the folder if you pass the font on to anyone else. Total download 527 KB.
The download includes the OFL license file. Keep it in the package if you redistribute the font.
Pairing suggestion. Netsera on The Asset Crate — a premium calligraphic display serif if you need more ornament than Cormorant offers.
Cormorant Garamond as a soft, elegant headline: see it with Raleway and with Poppins in our Canva pairing guides.
See it in real layouts: 6 fonts that pair with Cormorant Garamond in Canva, including the size it needs before it reads as elegant rather than faint.
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What the OFL license actually lets you do
You can:
- Use Cormorant Garamond in commercial projects, including client work you bill for
- Use Cormorant Garamond in a logo or brand identity, and trademark that logo
- Sell products that use Cormorant Garamond — merchandise, packaging, book covers
- Embed Cormorant Garamond in websites, apps, games, PDFs and ebooks
- Modify Cormorant Garamond and redistribute your modified version
You cannot:
- Sell the font file on its own, outside a larger bundled product
- Distribute it without the OFL license file
- Release a modified version under a Reserved Font Name
No attribution is required in your design. The OFL only asks that the license file travels with the font files.
Inside the file: 3,241 glyphs and 974 characters
Cormorant Garamond ships 3,241 glyphs covering 974 Unicode codepoints.
Vietnamese, and 13 other languages in full
Tested against the full alphabets of a reference set of languages, Cormorant Garamond fully covers 14:
Vietnamese · Spanish · French · German · Portuguese · Italian · Polish · Czech · Turkish · Romanian · Hungarian · Dutch · Nordic (da/no/sv) · Cyrillic
Vietnamese is fully supported, including stacked diacritics such as ế, ộ, ữ and ỹ — worth checking before you commit, because many free families stop at Latin Extended-A and silently drop them.
Which Unicode blocks those 974 characters cover
| Block | Covered |
|---|---|
| Basic Latin | 95 / 96 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 95 / 96 |
| Latin Extended-A | 128 / 128 |
| Latin Extended-B | 71 / 208 |
| IPA Extensions | 5 / 96 |
| Greek | 4 / 144 |
| Cyrillic | 220 / 256 |
OpenType features: 40 in the file
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
aalt | All alternates |
c2sc | Caps to small caps |
calt | Contextual alternates |
case | Case-sensitive forms |
ccmp | Glyph composition |
dlig | Discretionary ligatures |
frac | Fractions |
kern | Kerning |
liga | Standard ligatures |
lnum | Lining figures |
locl | Localized letterforms |
mark | Diacritic positioning |
Plus 28 further feature tags in the file, mostly stylistic-set and script-specific tables.
Variable axes: 1
- Weight (
wght): 300 to 700, continuous
Because this is a single variable file, every intermediate value is available. One file replaces the whole static weight set, which usually means a smaller total download than shipping three or four static cuts.
A low x-height (0.386) — drawn for display and long reading
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Units per em | 1,000 |
| Ascender | 924 |
| Descender | -287 |
| Cap height ratio | 0.625 |
| x-height ratio | 0.386 |
An x-height ratio of 0.386 is on the low side, typical of a face drawn for display or for long reading passages, where oversized lowercase letters would make text feel cramped.
Right for long reading, wrong at poster size
Good fit: Headlines, editorial titling, wedding and luxury branding, book covers — anywhere the fine hairlines can be set large enough to survive.
Poor fit: Body copy at 14–16px, and anything printed small or on absorbent stock. The hairlines disappear.
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More free serif coverage
- Netsera — a premium calligraphic display serif if you need more ornament than Cormorant offers
The license state and every technical figure on this page were read directly from the Cormorant Garamond font binary — fsType embedding bits, glyph counts, character coverage, OpenType feature tables, variable-axis ranges and vertical metrics — not copied from a third-party listing. Last verified 23 August 2026 against version Version 4.001.
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