Serif font in a medium or bold weight, rough drawn kind of style, used on Cargo Site's Useful Music

Question

Used on Cargo Site's Useful Music page. Can't find another use on their site that would work with web inspector since these are all images. 

Answer 1

It’s EB Garamond.

Comments

Didn't mean to post a whole other question, my bad. 
I think you're right, but when I recreate it in Indesign there's very slight differences. The corners are less sharp in the example, the serif on the i is straighter. 

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Sorry, I was curt before. EB Garamond originally came in two optical sizes, i.e. different cuts, each of which is intended for a specific range of sizes. EB Garamond 08 (= meant for small sizes around 8pt) is what you’re looking for. The version available on Google Fonts is a newer one which offers more weights, but only for what used to be the 12pt size. You can download the older one from Bitbucket.

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Aha! So Cargo took a smaller optical size and scaled it up. I wonder why, maybe you know why people do that. I figured something like this was going on, thanks so much for your help.

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Right, they used it in a different size than intended by the type designer. The 08 cut exhibits some of the typical adjustments made for small sizes: sturdier strokes with a bit more weight and less contrast (emulating the ink spread which has a stronger effect in smaller sizes) and more compact vertical proportions (shorter extenders). Shoko Mugikura and Tim Ahrens wrote a whole book about this topic – it’s excellent.

For the question why Cargo picked the “wrong” size: the answer to that probably is “because it looked better”. Someone must have liked the rough and hefty look.

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The ink! Easy to forget in our digital world. I would have thought that longer extenders would enhance legibility at small sizes, to distinguish characters better. But, I guess it could make the textblock look spotty or cluttered. I bet there's a book with these answers...

I was actually looking at using Lapture for a project the other day. Maybe now I have to pick up that book and use the caption size at display sizes.

It's always tricky to tell if something is because "it looked better" or if there's a deeper meaning or convention I'm unaware of. Thanks for your responses Florian! I think I'll stick around and learn some things