Interiors and font choices

[Mark Neumayer]

Here is one of the interior pages from the print version of my book. Nothing too fancy.
I used a font called Viking for the chapter titles and the initial drop cap in each chapter. (It is a shareware font I found on www.dafont.com and at only $5 was a heck of a bargain.)
The main text is set in Gentium Book Basic. Anytime you see the word "book" in the name of a font it literally means it would be a good font for, well, books. Go figure.

I built the knotwork element for the page numbers in Adobe Illustrator. The book itself was laid out in Adobe InDesign.

Anyone else want to post one of their pages or share some favorite font combos?

[gerald]

It's interesting, Mark. Some print books are now identifying the fonts used. At our local literary festival last year, we had a couple of authors from Bloomsbury plus their local sales agent. He said that they chose fonts very carefully, and sometimes used fonts which reflected the genre of the book, and also the target audience. Certain fonts appeal to certain sections of the community (apparently).

Of course, with modern e-readers like the Kindle, the reader can change fonts. In my print book, I've used Goudy Old Style, because I read somewhere that it was easy to read.

[Carradee]

Yeah, I'm still setting mine up. I tried size 11 Garamond, but that looks terrible for the italics. :/ I've switched to size 10 TNR for now, but I'm not sure I'm going to keep that.