fonting...
typography is a mystery to me.
fonts have, until recently, been a pesky avoidable nuisance.
i'd opt out of this chore of decision-making by
picking the standard over the odd, and the easy over the crazy.
i never learned the logic, never learned the rules.
i've used exclusively my own lazy and slightly naive
instinctual sense of wrongness or rightness.
now i stare at fonts.
trying to "get" them.
its led me to play games and look at websites such as this:
www.esperfonto.com
which promises to find you the perfect font.
just decide whether you need it to be
warm
friendly
modern
cute
cold
stylish
business-like
or wacky
and it will find one that does the job...
seems pretty great. fonts are a dilema, indeed.
ReplyDeletewhat i usually stick to is the improtant serif vs. sans rule. serifs on large type, sans for very small as in this typeface here. i dunno.
but that site seems pretty cool.
http://www.instantshift.com/2008/10/23/22-most-used-free-fonts-by-professional-designers/
ReplyDeleteIf you can you your own fonts for your book, then these quality free fonts will help. I'm using Cardo for my cover.
For more research on typography, watch the documentary Helvetica.