Claude Garamond
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Garamond is a family of old-style serif typefaces derived from the work of Claude Garamond circa 1530; most Garamond fonts are well-known for their readability, elegance, and character. You have certainly encountered Garamond typefaces many times in the past without noticing, as numerous enlightened publishers, authors, and individuals choose such fonts to typeset their works: books, resumes, etc. See Wikipedia for further details.
Amongst the numerous typefaces claiming Garamond heritage (see for instance Identifont's page for a tentatively exhaustive list), one finds:
When you are seriously considering to purchase a commercial Garamond font, we recommend Adobe Garamond Premier Pro for its quality and wide character coverage. However, for most people, this is nothing but a waste of money, as there is a good alternative free for anyone to download, use, and modify for non-commercial purposes: the Garamond No. 8 font, which was released under the Alladin Free Public License by URW++ Design & Development in 2000 and was subsequently further improved. You may download that font in TrueType format (used to render this page). As a consequence, using this font, say, in an X environment, is as simple as typing:
wget -P ~/.fonts -A ttf -r -np -nd http://garamond.org/urw/ mkfontdir ~/.fonts && xset fp rehash
It is also available for use with LaTeX, together with a corresponding mathematical font.
Supposing that this particular font does not suit your needs, we recommend that, prior to resorting to commercial fonts, you consider one of the multiple free alternatives, such as:
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