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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).




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