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Fonts for a print book
- Thread starter The Maven
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Journeyman
Nihal
Valar Lord
I think many ebook readers use the user-defined font, ignoring the creator's directives.
I'm partial to serif typefaces in this case, they're easier to read. Whatever you pick it should have a good x-height, a decent width and proper kerning. Avoid free fonts from these sites with thousands of fonts, they often lack the bold and italic styles—fundamental for the body of text—and worst: they're badly kerned, if kerned at all.
If the kerning is bad you'll have to put considerable effort into formatting and correcting it at the risk of having a text that is straining to read.
With these considerations in mind, you can get started here:
Don't forget that your body typeface has to match your headings and auxiliary texts.
I'm partial to serif typefaces in this case, they're easier to read. Whatever you pick it should have a good x-height, a decent width and proper kerning. Avoid free fonts from these sites with thousands of fonts, they often lack the bold and italic styles—fundamental for the body of text—and worst: they're badly kerned, if kerned at all.
If the kerning is bad you'll have to put considerable effort into formatting and correcting it at the risk of having a text that is straining to read.
With these considerations in mind, you can get started here:
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Don't forget that your body typeface has to match your headings and auxiliary texts.
Addison
Dark Lord
Personally I think that depends on what genre you're writing and who you're writing for. If it's first person I go with something that looks a little hand written, like Segoe, Gabriola, Comic Sans. Basically I try to have the font match the story in some way.