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The font that's already installed on your computer called "Garamond" is not the only Garamond, and frankly not the best looking IMO. The original Garamond is o
by kccqzy 5y ago
The font that's already installed on your computer called "Garamond" is not the only Garamond, and frankly not the best looking IMO.
The original Garamond is of course from centuries ago. Now there are now multiple digital versions of Garamond from different font foundries.
If you get the chance, I recommend instead "ITC Garamond Std" or "Adobe Garamond Pro" (both from Adobe Font Folio), especially the former. I especially enjoy the little curve on the serif at the top left of letters such as "r" or "n" which I found to be especially charming, but sadly missing from many Garamond implementations.
A screenshot of a few Garamonds: https://imgur.com/a/dxWHsh0 https://imgur.com/a/dxWHsh0
- perardi 5y agoITC Garamond and Adobe Garamond are very, very different typefaces. Adobe: https://www.typewolf.com/garamond https://www.typewolf.com/garamond ITC: https://www.typewolf.com/itc-garamond https://www.typewolf.com/itc-garamond Adobe’s version is closer to the original version, and by my contemporary aesthetics, better. ITC Garamond gives me “advertisement for a Mac II with Color LaserWriter”. Very 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.#Apple_Garamond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.#Apple...
- pointlessone 5y agoI don't know. Adobe looks closer to Apple Garamond than ITC. https://www.typewolf.com/apple-garamond https://www.typewolf.com/apple-garamond
- perardi 5y agoApple Garamond was an optically compressed version of ITC Garamond. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.#Apple_Garamond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.#Apple... You can really see it in the x-height.
- jacobolus 5y agoAnd if you want something in somewhat similar style that looks good on screen, I prefer Slimbach’s Minion typeface to either (Slimbach also designed Adobe’s Garamond).
- zarakshR 5y agoAnd EB Garamond[0] if you want a free font. [0] - https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/eb-garamond https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/eb-garamond
- Sunspark 5y agoFor body text, I would say the 1st and 4th in the screenshot are the best ones. Which ones are they?
- mark-r 5y agoThe first appears to be Adobe Garamond. The fourth looks like Simoncini Garamond.