The Book Blueprint by Joel Friedlander

Author:Joel Friedlander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joel Friedlander
Published: 2018-05-14T13:53:46+00:00

My 10 Favorite Fonts for

Interior Design

As publishers, we want our books to be as easy to read as possible while communicating the author’s intent (even if the author is you). Style and fashion also play their part in many book designs, particularly in popular niches. The accumulated expectations of five hundred years of book readers also come into play. There are many conventions in the way books look and work that readers have come to expect, whether they realize it or not.

Some fonts lend themselves beautifully to book design while others, which look good in a brochure or on a business card or billboard, make odd, unreadable books. Any idiosyncrasy in the type design will be magnified by the repetition of typesetting seventy-five thousand or a hundred thousand words in thousands of lines on hundreds of pages. So the choice of your basic typeface looms large when you sit down to design your book.

Here are ten typefaces that have become favorites of mine, and which I’ve used over and over again in books of all kinds. I think they’ll work well in your books, too.

Note: All samples were typeset in Adobe InDesign in 17 point type on 21 points of leading and enlarged 200 percent for these illustrations. Also, any font marked (free) is available free online from FontSquirrel.com, which is also where the free font descriptions come from. Here we go, free fonts first:

Gandhi Serif (free)—Designed for the Librerias Gandhi chain of Mexican bookstores, this font has an old style look that lends itself superbly to all kinds of literary works. Gandhi Serif creates a smooth book page. Here’s a sample:

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