Re: Choosing among Versions of Sabon

> Well, the font has maintenance problems.  The original from Georg
> Duffner at
> 
>   https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond
> 
> is basically frozen since more than 10 years, and the list of issues
> is quite large.  An improved version from Octavio Pardo at
> 
>   https://github.com/octaviopardo/EBGaramond12
> 
> also had a hiatus of five years with no fixes applied (and almost 40
> issues open), and only recently I see some (non-font) commits again.

Most fonts have “maintainance problems”, because fonts usually don’t need 
constant development. But the problem with EB Garamond is just that not all 
kerning and ligatures are perfect.

> Another derived font, however, has a lot of activity:
> 
>   https://codeberg.org/m-casanova/Garamontio
> 
> The only 'problem' is that ChangeLog entries are in Italian :-)

That looks interesting, but very big problem for me is that this one messes 
with the angle of the italics. Like it reduces the cursive angle from -17 to 
-11.3 or something, which is kind of killing the character of the italics. 
Visually it is almost an upright italic. Which would be fine as variant, but I 
like the original Design by Granjon better.

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