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turing
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 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: choosing a typeface |
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Hi all!
I was hoping for a suggestion.
I'm typesetting a book and I have to choose a good font for the main
text.
It should be based on a French design, because the topic is French
both in essence and in history.
But other than that, the message that we would like to convey is
something along this line: "we know that people working on the subject
of this book is constantly trying to trim down the amount of variables
and the complexity of the approach to make it look like they are
scientific. But you know what? It is not. And the more viewpoints, the
better".
In other words, a typeface that says: richness of approaches is good.
So I was thinking of a Baroque typeface. Do you think that's
appropriate? Any particular one to suggest?
Thank you!
M. |
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Bill
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:27 am Post subject: Re: choosing a typeface |
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On Oct 11, 7:19 pm, turing <m.redae...@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all!
I was hoping for a suggestion.
I'm typesetting a book and I have to choose a good font for the main
text.
It should be based on a French design, because the topic is French
both in essence and in history.
But other than that, the message that we would like to convey is
something along this line: "we know that people working on the subject
of this book is constantly trying to trim down the amount of variables
and the complexity of the approach to make it look like they are
scientific. But you know what? It is not. And the more viewpoints, the
better".
In other words, a typeface that says: richness of approaches is good.
So I was thinking of a Baroque typeface. Do you think that's
appropriate? Any particular one to suggest?
Thank you!
M.
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Garamond might be a good choice. I like Granjon and Sabon for books.
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David E. Ross
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject: Re: choosing a typeface |
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On 10/11/2008 4:19 PM, turing wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all!
I was hoping for a suggestion.
I'm typesetting a book and I have to choose a good font for the main
text.
It should be based on a French design, because the topic is French
both in essence and in history.
But other than that, the message that we would like to convey is
something along this line: "we know that people working on the subject
of this book is constantly trying to trim down the amount of variables
and the complexity of the approach to make it look like they are
scientific. But you know what? It is not. And the more viewpoints, the
better".
In other words, a typeface that says: richness of approaches is good.
So I was thinking of a Baroque typeface. Do you think that's
appropriate? Any particular one to suggest?
Thank you!
M.
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For a book, I would choose a simple, easy-to-read font that does not
distract the reader from the content. Don't choose a font that is more
interesting than the content. (This is actually very good advice for
Web designers, too.)
Your publisher should advise you about this.
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David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
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Armadillo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: Re: choosing a typeface |
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| Quote: | I'm typesetting a book and I have to choose a good font for the main
text.
It should be based on a French design, because the topic is French
both in essence and in history.
For a book, I would choose a simple, easy-to-read font that does not
distract the reader from the content. Don't choose a font that is more
interesting than the content. (This is actually very good advice for
Web designers, too.)
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Book typography is not made with typeface alone although it is usually the first choice. Good typography is mostly about proportions. It includes type size/line lenght, line length/line spacing, line spacing/number of lines text area/page (margins) etc.
Also remember that type size is not a integer, it can be 10.2 or even 12.75. Very often changing type size 0.2 point can make a big difference.
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My currrent favorites are Adobe Garamond, Adobe Caslon, Arno, Minion and Kepler,
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