EB Hymne, a typeface designed by Catalogue Général (Jean-Marie Courant & Marie Proyart) and Jérôme Foubert, is the result of an in-depth investigation into the typographic work of German poet Stefan George (1868–1933). A collective project, EB Hymne offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the poet's typeface, from the first amendments he requested in 1904 to an uchronian projection through the prism of the New Typography of the 1920s.

Starting in 1904 and continuing for nearly a decade, Stefan George had a series of lowercase letters (a, c, f, g, k, s, t, w) modified on the basis of Akzidenz Grotesk in order to remove anything that makes the text bristle. A few capital letters (A, C, E, G, L, M, N, S, T, W), mainly used by the poet at the beginning of lines or to compose titles, were modified in the opposite direction and took on surprisingly more pronounced forms.

Following on from the work done on lowercase letters and the smoothing effect produced on the line of text, EB Hymne extends this to several uppercase letters (A, G, J, M, N, O, Q, W, Y), as they might have been designed by the practitioners of New Typography.

EB Hymne can thus appear in three states: the first, a standard lineale font based on a slightly revised Akzidenz Grotesk; the second, the same lineale font recomposed according to Stefan George’s typographic inventions; while the third state continues this reconfiguration taking the logic of the fluidity of the line a little further. The thirteen stylistic sets allow these three versions to be recomposed, or to play with the multiple possibilities offered.

On a basis originally designed for typesetting text from 6 to 12 point, EB Hymne, with its weight and various alternative letters, is equally suited to everyday text use and to compositions in larger point sizes.