Typography convention holds that sans serif faces should be used for display headers and book covers while serif typefaces are used for body text to ease readability. He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science I. Read more on Lifehacker and YourStory. We build bespoke solutions that use the capabilities and the features of Google Workspace for automating business processes and driving work productivity.
Published in: book. Share on:. The font change will signal to the reader the character difference. Always be intentional about any font choices and most importantly of all; ask someone else for their opinion!
What about using Times New Roman 14? Bold for headers and non-bold for text. It looks nice in print. Times New Roman aligns nicely on the right side of the page. No matter which font I use, for some lines, since they are justified, there is some extra spacing. How can I avoid that when justifying the text? Or can I can avoid it with different fonts? Hi Sherry, Times 14 is a great font for print.
Adjusting the Kerning will change the space between individual characters while tracking uniformly changes the space between characters and words. Both are powerful tools to adjust the white space on your page. I like to stick to simple fonts, not using too many. For my books, I stick with Garamond for text and Tahoma bold, larger for chapter headings. I will definitely try Baskerville! Georgia for text on back covers.
Font — the combination of the family, weight, and size of a letter. Typeface — synonymous with the font. Font Family — the subset the font is based on; Times is a font family and fonts like Times New Roman or Times Bold 18 point is examples of fonts in the Times family. Sans Serif Typeface — plain lettering without a serif.
Size — the size of your letting based on the points sizing scale. Weight — the line thickness of the letters, and elements like bold and italics. Sans-Serif vs. Serif Fonts. You Might Also like:. Get Started. Sign Up. Century — Century is one of those great fonts that really bridges the gap between serif and sans serif—which now more and more means page and screen. This is another older style, Serif font with many similarities to Baskerville. Add to that the need to tighten kerning to eliminate widows and short words on one line at the end of a paragraph that would easily fit on the previous line, and I wind up doing a lot of kerning just to improve appearance.
I am a bit confused by your method of adjusting kerning. Are you using it for left and right justified text? I will put it to the test on the next large project. The method I use is 1 highlight the paragraph 2 in Advanced Font, go to the right-hand box after Spacing 3 click on the down arrow to get. In the case of single quote and a double quote marks jammed together, I follow the same procedure but instead of clicking the down arrow in the spacing box, I click the up arrow.
This will put a small space between the single quote mark and the double quote mark. I usually have fewer than a dozen hyphenated words in a to page novel. In that one sentence, I simply reduced the character spacing between words that looked like they had wider spaces between them. I only did that when I knew I needed only a very little more space to fit all the words on the line.
Your method is probably much faster if you have to adjust a lot of text. When I said I adjusted the text itself, I meant that I rewrote to shorten or lengthen lines to eliminate widows and orphans. Those rivers you mentioned can be created by a lack of hyphenation, when too much space is added to a line when text is justified. Hyphenated words that break with a line break can be adjusted in a couple of ways, so you still have control over them—you can skip hyphenation for any single word, you can have the word break in a different place, and you can skip hyphenation for a whole paragraph.
I meant to mention that I create my own thin space between double and single quotation marks. The font size I use for the space depends on the font size for the text—so if the text is 14 point, I might use 7 or 8 points for the thin space.
I happen to think one way is better but I will try other ways to confirm or change the way I do things. Hill, thank you so much for your useful information on your website, and offer to allow people like me to ask further questions via this means. I need to ask you two hopefully simple questions about Word that I have not been able to find anywhere online.
Having just finished a long non-fiction manuscript for both paperback and ebook printing by both KDP and Ingram, I picked an attractive Copperplate Gothic Bold font for titles and Garamond for the text in the paperback version, but I understand that Kindle can only use only 11 different fonts. Is it wise to 1 first pick a font of my choosing from those eleven to modify the text now for the EBook version before uploading it to those sites, and 2 while I see many recommending Georgia as a serif font for text for low resolution screens, some recommend sans serif fonts for titles.
Do you recommend any fonts for titles that keep at least some of the sexyness of the Copperplate Gothic bold one? The book is a serious, more scholarly theological book and not just a flashy coffee table book, so flash is not honestly the main intention.
I saw someone mention that an idea was to make my unique font titles as jpegs to then re-insert as pictures to preserve them , but I am not aware on how to convert an existing title into a jpeg, also of a minimum resolution, and then establish it in the text; if you have suggestions on the how-to for that as well if it is the best approach and possible , I would be most appreciative of that as well.
The only way I know how to possibly do so is to lift the Notes citations out of the artificial Word-generated section for this paperback version, and place them in an adjacent section that I make myself, but I did not know if KDP or Ingram would still accept that for paperback uploads.
If you have any time to comment on either or both of these, I would be so grateful, so as to get over this last hurdle to become a solo-published author of non-technical work, for once! I cannot thank you enough for taking your time to provide this valuable information! My husband is writing his first book and I want to be able to help him with publishing. I started my research today and came across your blog. I am super excited to start this process which does not seem nearly as daunting as it did this time yesterday!
Great information! I am writing my first book and want to self publish but formatting looks to complicated for me. Mine is a simple Memoir, less than words. Info on the internet is so confusing.
If I pay someone to format, what is a reasonable price? It used prowriteraid for editing, not sure where to go from here. This book is basically just for my grandchildren and friends.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Hi Beth! Great article! One question I still have which may be a stupid one is: Once your book has been formatted, how do you know whether the formatting is good or bad? Is it a matter of viewing each page of the book on different displays, or is there something more or less to it? Thank you Beth. One free site suggested Font Times New Roman, size 12, indent each new paragraph 0. After reading this excellent article I shall now create a new version, using San Serif, spacing 1.
Thanks again Beth. I may contact you for your professional advice. Fantastic article — it really helps someone like me who has never had a book published. I wrote a rhyming dictionary 20 years ago, but never bothered to get it published.
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