![]() ![]() I also wanted a resonance with my cover fonts all in all, the process took quite a while to get right. We compared page after page, making sure the final result was highly legible, and the italics were both legible and distinct enough to be obvious, and that the fonts use for headers and titles and text inserts and a special prologue (which is a faux New Yorker extract) worked together. I had done lots and lots of reading and studying and checking licenses and availability and prices. My daughter (a designer) and I spent an interesting afternoon helping me choose the fonts for the print version of Pride’s Children. Word processors cannot do what we need to do as book designers! In fact, I developed a relatively extensive list of steps to completely strip out word processor formatting to enable good typography to be added within InDesign. Their documents were a horror when I received them as raw copy when I was working full-time as a graphic designer. I do not use Word processors unless forced to do so. In fact, many of the things you need are impossible in Word. In Word it is very difficult to do excellent typography. For your ePUBs and Kindle versions there is another whole set of problems.Īs mentioned, InDesign naturally tends to produce good typography-unlike Word. All of these fonts mentioned will work well for you in print. For today you need to remember that good fonts purchased from a reputable supplier are essential. Typography is probably the major skill set you will be adding as you learn to publish your own books. List price is $25 each for the seventeen fonts plus you get the book. I will sell you the 16 Fonts used: Contenu Book (5), Contenu (4), Contenu Ebook (4), and Buddy (4) plus Basic Book Typography for $50. If you like the fonts I am using in my current books, click here to buy now for only $50. Eventually you will probably buy something special for your taste and style-but it certainly not necessary. Iowan Old Style and Bodoni 72 Oldstyle come with OSX.Īny of these font families will work for you as you get into the industry and learn your craft. A couple you probably have are Adobe Jenson Pro and Palatino . You may be surprised at some of the gems. It is a free piece of software that comes with OSX to install and view the fonts you have installed on your computer. What you are looking for is a professional quality serif font face. Many of you will also have others installed by various hardware and software you have purchased over the years. The Mac OSX software gives you several more- Baskerville, Cochin, Hoefler Text, and Optima are quite pretty. The numbers in brackets are the number of different versions found in a quick search there. The links are to different versions in MyFonts. Caslon , Garamond , Chaparrel, and Minion are four good fonts for body copy. The good news is that the Creative Suite comes with some excellent fonts for book design. One of the goals of all my writings is to teach you good stewardship. As you grow in skill as book designer, you’ll probably read several of them. The sad thing is that most of them are very dry, ridiculously technical, and full of strong opinions stated as facts (been guilty of that m’self). Not surprisingly, because book designers are typographers, there are many books on the subject. It’s a very entertaining yet highly informative read. Stop Stealing Sheep by Speikermann & Ginger:The title comes from an old quote by Frederic Goudy who said that anyone who would letterspace lowercase would steal sheep. ![]() It’s pretty heavy-duty but an excellent read (a bit dated & anal, though). The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst: This is the industry classic.InDesign Type by Nigel French: This is the best basic book I have seen on setting up type in InDesign.For an introduction to typography in publishing read my new revised and expanded, Book Publishing With InDesign CCavailable in the normal spots. This illustration is from my font design book, Practical Font Design With FontLab 5, which is available in print as well as ebooks at iBookstore, NookBooks, Kobo, Scribd, and Kindle. More importantly, you get a glimpse of things that are important in the world of typography. You can see above how the point size of the type relates to the ascender, cap height, x-height, baseline, and descender. Again, we need some more basic language definitions. ![]()
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