[Tex/LaTex] How to bold a word using EB Garamond font

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I am trying to figure out how to bold "LaTeX University". How do I go about doing this? What I have now (i.e., "\textbf{LaTeX University}" is not working for some reason with my used font EB Garamond.

\documentclass[10pt, a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\usepackage{textgreek}

\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}


\usepackage{varwidth}
\geometry{margin=1.75in}

\title{{\Large{Curriculum Vitae}}}


\date{}

\author{}
\singlespacing
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section*{\normalsize{Contact}}



\section*{\normalsize{Education}}

\begin{itemize}


\item \textbf{LaTeX University} \\
\vspace{-5mm}

\end{itemize}



\end{document}

Best Answer

The EB Garamond font family doesn't provide bold or bold italic font faces. You need to switch to a Garalde (short for "Garamond-Aldus [Manutius]) font that does provide these additional font faces.

Not knowing what operating system and TeX distribution you employ, it's not easy to give a definitive suggestion, except that you should switch to LuaLaTeX so that you can make use of system fonts. Hopefully, your OS features (at least) one of Adobe Garamond Pro, Palatino, and Junicode. If not, I'm sure you'll be able to locate some other suitable Garalde font on your system.

Some additional comments about your code: (a) If you want to bold the title ("Curriculum Vitae"), don't use the \title-\maketitle device, as it switches to the normal (non-bold) font weight for the argument of title. (b) Consider using the sectsty package and making \normalsize the default font size for all sectioning headers.

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Aside: Bold and bold italic font faces did not exist during the lifetimes of Aldus Manutius and Claude Garamond. If you want to show some real (typographic!) sophistication while using a Garalde, consider writing your document without any bold-facing tricks.

% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
\documentclass[10pt, a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\geometry{margin=1.75in}

\usepackage{setspace}
\singlespacing

\usepackage{sectsty}
\allsectionsfont{\normalsize}

\usepackage{ifluatex}
\ifluatex
  \usepackage{fontspec}
  %% Choose a suitable Garalde:
  %\setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}
  %\setmainfont{Junicode} 
  \setmainfont{Palatino}
\else
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage{ebgaramond}
  \usepackage{textgreek}
\fi

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
\Large\bfseries Curriculum Vitae
\end{center}

\section*{Contact}

\section*{Education}

\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{LaTeX University}
\end{itemize}

\end{document}
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