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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 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

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ITC Garamond and Adobe Garamond are very, very different typefaces.

Adobe: https://www.typewolf.com/garamond

ITC: 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...

I don't know. Adobe looks closer to Apple Garamond than ITC. https://www.typewolf.com/apple-garamond

Apple Garamond was an optically compressed version of ITC Garamond.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.#Apple...

You can really see it in the x-height.

And 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).

And EB Garamond[0] if you want a free font.

[0] - https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/eb-garamond

For body text, I would say the 1st and 4th in the screenshot are the best ones. Which ones are they?

The first appears to be Adobe Garamond. The fourth looks like Simoncini Garamond.

OP here. Exactly correct.

Myfonts.com WhatTheFont feature is incredibly useful. I've gone through the list of Garamonds before by hand and it's tedious work.

Great feature!

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