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Originally Posted by DNSB
We used to use some of ITC's fonts at one place I did some consulting for. Personally, I preferred the ITC Garamond Std Book set for reading in print. However, please note that these fonts are not free. A print and electronic docs license is not cheap. And yes, one of their customers ran into issues when they violated the license terms by releasing a new version of an ebook and not paying for those licenses (a free update is not an issue, a new edition which costs the old owners is an issue).
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When looking for free Garamond, there's always EB Garamond. Not only one of the best Garamond versions available, but one of the best fonts available overall. Sadly, the author of the font appears to have abandoned work on it. It's fully usable for ebooks and for normal text, with italics and regular fonts in 8px and 12px form. 8 and 12 forms based on different sizes from 1592 Garamond specimen, but it's missing bolds for other uses.
It's available both on Adobe Fonts and Google Fonts pages with extra weights that were made by someone else, but only in it's 8px form. I'd encourage everyone to go for initial release instead. It includes initials and small caps versions, and off course, the glorious EB Garamond 12 in regular and italic versions.
Links:
http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html
https://bitbucket.org/georgd/eb-garamond/downloads/
Btw, some people really don't like ITC Garamond:
https://designobserver.com/article.php?id=2577