Garamond font is listed in this article as installed in Big Sur but it is not listed in the Font Book app. How do I get Garamond installed?

Garamond is installed. As explained in the article…

"These fonts are available only in documents that already use the font,

or in apps that request the font by name. Some are older fonts that were

included with earlier versions of the Mac operating system or Apple

apps."

Which is why Garamond does not show in Font Book.

Garamond is most definitely installed.

While Font Book may not show the font, there are many 3rd party apps with poor font support that show Garamond, and a few hundred others. You can run any of these apps to confirm that Garamond is, in fact, installed. As far as I know, Pixelmator Pro does fonts correctly and would NOT show Garamond, but all other 3rd party apps are broken.

Most likely, your document is using some different variant of Garamond. You haven’t said anything about the document in question or what you are using to open it, so that’s all I can tell you for now.

Is this a Word document that you have opened in Pages? If that is the case, when Pages translates the document into .pages format, it requires that the internal Word document font references be physically installed fonts in macOS to avoid font substitution with its replacement font de jure (probably Times or Times New Roman). Unfortunately, the explicit font name reference must be installed as for instance, an EBGaramond-Regular reference will not match an installed Adobe Garamond (AGaramond-Regular) font.

I am running macOS 11.6 and I have no Garamond font located in /System/Library/Fonts, /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental, or /Library/Fonts locations. All of my various Garamond OpenType or TrueType collections are in my local ~/Library/Fonts folder because I put them there. This is also a location that the operating system also searches for installed fonts and they become automatically available to your applications.

Here is the dafont free download page (click the adjacent green download button) for 22 typefaces of the OpenType Adobe Garamond font. All fonts are in an Adobe Garamond folder. Just move that folder to /Users/username/Library/Fonts folder and hopefully, you are done.

VikingOSX wrote:

I am running macOS 11.6 and I have no Garamond font located in /System/Library/Fonts, /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental, or /Library/Fonts locations. All of my various Garamond OpenType or TrueType collections are in my local ~/Library/Fonts folder because I put them there. This is also a location that the operating system also searches for installed fonts and they become automatically available to your applications.

See the post by dialabrain above. There are some fonts located inside the FontServices framework. I don't know why some are located there and others are in /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental. Perhaps Apple is moving them inside the framework so that Adobe et al no longer see them and add them to their font menus.

I just test this with Pages and it worked as expected. I installed my own Garamond, created a Word document with it and saved. Then I removed my Garamond and opened the document in Pages. No problem. Curiously, this font is not listed in the internal font database like the many "Noto" fonts that cause so much grief.

From Big Sur…

My guess is it's a licensing issue.