Eli5/Why Do Font Choices in Microsoft Word Look so Similar?

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When I go to choose a font for documents I create, I’m looking for something legible, but unique. Upon reading through the different styles, I see that so many have different names but look practically identical.
Why is that?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Can you give us some names? By an anomaly in copyright law, many successful typefaces have knockoffs; for example, my font library once included Book Antiqua, a knockoff of Palatino, and my last typewriter’s face was Esteem, a knockoff of Prestige.

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