From the typeface’s Behance page [0]: > Cormorant is an original design for an extravagant display serif typeface inspired by the Garamond heritage, hand-drawn

From the typeface’s Behance page [0]: > Cormorant is an original design for an extravagant display serif typeface inspired by the Garamond heritage, hand-drawn and produced by Catharsis Fonts. While traditional Garamond cuts make for exquisite reading at book sizes, they appear clumpy and inelegant at larger sizes. The design goal of Cormorant was to distill the æsthetic essence of Garamond, unfetter it from the limitations of metal printing, and allow it to bloom into its natural refined form at high definition. In the comments, the font’s creator states: > As for a text version of Cormorant, that's basically covered by EB Garamond already... and if that's of interest of you, I am developing a sans version of Garamond for use as a text font. It's called Eau de Garamond already in quite usable shape. You can find it on GitHub. None of this is to make anyone feel silly: Cormorant is a nice free typeface, albeit difficult to read at those sizes – there are tradeoffs made to make it look better at heading sizes. Knowing all that, I even considered typesetting a paperback in Cormorant Garamond, and I was surprisingly pleased with the results. I don’t remember what we ultimately chose, but Cormorant Garamond was a strong contender. The author did want the type quite large on that book, though, to the point where other Garamonds looked a bit 'sludgy' – what the Cormorant designer calls 'clumpy and inelegant'. As for the article’s author, they did seem to notice the relative lightness of the typeface and adjust the weight to 500: > The font used here is Cormorant. To make it look a bit better on screen the default weight was increased from 400 to 500. This looks about right, comparing the google fonts pages [1,2]; however, Cormorant wasn’t really designed to work well at those sizes. [0] https://www.behance.net/gallery/28579883/Cormorant-an-open-source-display-font-family https://www.behance.net/gallery/28579883/Cormorant-an-open-s... [1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cormorant https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cormorant [2] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond