: Font suggestions for book? (Scott Turner)
Robert Bringhurst, Elements of Typographic Style, if anyone wants to spend a
weekend on the couch ...
Cheers,
Mike
I have a fondness for Minion or Garamond. I think you can find a free
font that is similar to these. However, the cost is relatively
We use Arial for headings and Century
Schoolbook for the paragraph text. Generally san-serif fonts are
better for onscreen reading and serif fonts are better for print.
Century Schoolbook is a serif font that is similar to Times New
Roman but less compressed.
Robert Bringhurst, Elements of Typographic Style, if anyone wants to spend a
weekend on the couch ...
Cheers,
Mike
I have a fondness for Minion or Garamond. I think you can find a
free font that is similar to these. However, the cost is relatively
small, so purchase should be considered.
I have a fondness for Minion or Garamond. I think you can find a free font that
is similar to these. However, the cost is relatively small, so purchase should
be considered.
The advantage if Minion and Garamond is that they both have a relatively low
height to width ratio, making them very
Besides being a matter of taste (which really cannot be argued), font choice
cannot be done intelligently without knowing *lot* of other information, such
as:
- medium of the deliverable (printed, PDF, HTML, eBook, etc.)
- page size (if fixed, or range of page size if variable)
- column width
Choosing a font set is always a bit of a matter of taste. However, it is
usual to see in (company) manuals sans serif types like Arial (ususally
because no one bothers to check for anything else) or the Calibri font that
came with the newer MS Office suites.
I used to opt for Helvetica instead of
