The letter forms and the kerning of Pardo's Regular are identical with Mayr-Duffner's EB Garamond 12. The other weights are generated from the masters. Pardo's implementation is hence based on two masters, Regular and Bold. Octavio Pardo switched to the proprietary font editor Glyphs that supports multiple master fonts. Mayr-Duffner implemented the EB Garamond originally in FontForge using the SFDIR and UFO format. As of 2018 Pardo's implementation includes 5 weights (Regular, Medium, Semi-Bold, Bold and Extra-Bold), both in regular and italic style. As Georg Mayr-Duffner couldn't complete the bold weights for personal reasons, Google commissioned the Spanish type designer Octavio Pardo to continue the project. As of 2014 his implementation included fonts based on the 8 and 12 point forms from the 1592 specimen, but lacked the bold font faces. Duffner's intention was to include multiple optical sizes. In addition the font includes OpenType features such as swash italic capitals and schoolbook alternates. The Greek characters are based on Robert Granjon's work as well. It shows Garamont's roman and Granjon's italic fonts at different sizes. Mayr-Duffner took the letterforms from a scan of a specimen known as the “Berner specimen” which was printed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office. In 2011 the Austrian designer Georg Mayr-Duffner released the EB Garamond under the Open Font License. Illustration of the right (upper example) and the wrong (lower example) use of the optical sizes
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