We’ll end today with my top fonts for fiction and nonfiction works. It’s not designed for print, plain and simple. It behooves authors and book creators to separate what looks good on your screen and what looks good in print. Yet I would never print a book in Trebuchet. I just think it’s a nice, clean font that looks good on my screen. My Google Docs and MS Word default to Trebuchet. But could you imagine reading Lord of the Rings in Courier? I doubt anyone would get past the first chapter.
In context, the right font goes unnoticed. And last we have Courier, a classic ‘typewriter’ font, that you wouldn’t expect to see in a book but is great for newspapers. Three printable fonts, each with appropriate uses.Įach of these three has a specific purpose in mind, by design and historical use. Then we have Interface a great web font that is also used for magazines and textbook printing. Baskerville is great for long-form novels. Here we have three common print fonts with distinct uses. You avoid any risk of putting off a reader with an uncommon or inappropriate font. Using a common font, one you can reasonably assume your readers are familiar with means they’ll likely never think about your choice. The most important of your font’s many jobs is to go unnoticed. Why use a font that looks like Baskerville when you can just use Baskerville? Putting all those expectations into perspective, how do we ever decide on a font? When there are literally thousands to choose from, I submit that the right answer is to just keep it simple. And making sure every line of text is a pleasure to read. This is what it’s all about right? Creating your custom book so it looks amazing. If I was laying out a novel for printing, I would never use Calibri while Baskerville is my go-to. Can you see why? It might be a touch hazy on your screen since I’ve screen captured from Word, but the lines are thinner and the serifs create horizontal consistency that leads the eye from word to word. Then we have Baskerville, a very common font for fiction novels. Thick lines, no serifs, ample white space between the lines.
Calibri is Word’s default and looks just fine on the screen.
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