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Lagunita

A variable serif for screens: a Garamond in the manner of Jean Jannon, with flared stems and chisel-cut terminals.

Styles
Roman and italic
Weight
300 to 800
Optical size
10 to 72
Licence
SIL Open Font License

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72
After the rain, a craft of light & stone

Click the words to type your own.

Seven weights, roman and italic

  • 300Light Light Italic
  • 350Book Book Italic
  • 400Regular Italic
  • 500Medium Medium Italic
  • 600SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • 700Bold Bold Italic
  • 800ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

And every weight between: the axis runs without steps from 300 to 800.

Two cuts on one axis

Text optical size 10

Many of the twentieth century’s Garamonds were cut from types made not by Claude Garamond but by Jean Jannon, a printer in Sedan, in the 1610s. The mistake stood until 1926, when Beatrice Warde traced them back to him.

Sturdier hairlines, a taller x-height and looser spacing, so it holds up at reading sizes on a screen.

Display optical size 72

Many of the twentieth century’s Garamonds were cut from types made not by Claude Garamond but by Jean Jannon, a printer in Sedan, in the 1610s. The mistake stood until 1926, when Beatrice Warde traced them back to him.

Finer hairlines, fuller flare in the stems and a tighter fit, for headlines.

You don’t have to choose: with font-optical-sizing: auto, the browser picks the cut from the font size.

OpenType features

  • Ligatures liga fine official waffles, five flights
  • Discretionary ligatures dlig The architect’s strict, offbeat attic
  • Oldstyle and lining figures onum lnum Founded 1891, rebuilt 1906, open in 2026
  • Fractions frac 1/2 mile, 3/4 cup, 7/8 inch, 15/16
  • Swash capitals, italic swsh Quiet Afternoons, Morning Rain
  • Small capitals smcp small capitals, for names and acronyms

Characters

Ascender Cap height x-height Baseline Descender a

Small a U+0061

About

Lagunita is a Garamond in the manner of Jean Jannon: sharp serifs, a contrast that sharpens as it gets heavier, and an italic that leans with a little life in it. Its details come from carved, glyphic lettering: the stems flare slightly where they meet their serifs, the terminals of the f, r, a and c are cut off with a chisel rather than swelling into drops, and the t stands a little taller than usual. Every outer corner is softened a touch.

It was made for screens rather than print. The Text cut, at small optical sizes, has sturdier hairlines, a taller x-height and more room between letters, so it stays clear in paragraphs. The Display cut sharpens the contrast and tightens the fit for headlines. Both sit on one optical size axis, and browsers move along it on their own as the type gets bigger.

The family is two variable fonts, roman and italic, each with a weight axis from 300 to 800 and an optical size axis from 10 to 72. It is built from EB Garamond, by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo, and like it is free under the SIL Open Font License.

Download

Lagunita.zip 7.7 MB The variable fonts, roman and italic, for your computer (TTF) and the web (WOFF2), with a readme and the licence.

Lagunita-static.zip 9.2 MB Every weight as its own font, in Text and Display, for apps that don’t take variable fonts.

Free to use, change and share, in anything, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Built from EB Garamond by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo.

On a website:

@font-face {
  font-family: "Lagunita";
  src: url("Lagunita-Roman.woff2") format("woff2") tech(variations);
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Lagunita";
  src: url("Lagunita-Italic.woff2") format("woff2") tech(variations);
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
body { font-family: "Lagunita", Georgia, serif; }