When looking at Garamond and Baskerville, they both are serif fonts. One of my favorite parts about these two fonts is how they both have ascenders and terminals in their lettering. I find that it makes the lettering in words tend to flow together and be more cohesive rather than too stiff in Helvetica. The counters and cross bars are wide as well so these fonts are more spaced out making the words easier to read as you go. When looking closely at the lower case ‘a’ in Baskerville, the finial is more pushed upward compared to Garamond. I think one of my favorite things about the Garamond typeface is that in the upper case ‘G’ there’s a tiny spur that adds more of a serif style to the font. Really if I wanted to continue on with being picky, if you look closely at both fonts, Garamond is slightly more curved with connecting the serif to the rest of the letter compare to the look of Baskerville. As much as I love the look of Garamond more, when talking about the history of the typeface I enjoy John Baskerville’s purpose better. He wanted to create a typeface that would help form a gateway for old and new fonts.
