The second way to pair types is the “hard,” creative way the doping-it-out kind of way, where the book designer does the matching. Stay on your toes, however, as not each of these pairs is suitable for making books. (As a bonus, both the Fontin superfamily and the Liberation superfamily are open source - that is, free to use.) There’s also an interesting list of forty superfamilies in an article on Peyton Crump’s Viget Inspire blog. The other way is arguably the more creative way, and is what, intuitively, one expects to pay a book designer to do: dope out perfect matches for each book he or she works on.Ī few of my favorite type superfamilies are Fontin/ Fontin Sans, Liberation Serif/ LiberationSans, and Scala Pro/ Scala Sans Pro. First, the lazy - though not necessarily uninteresting way - is to choose superfamilies comprised of both serif and sans serif fonts. ![]() I know of two ways to select typefaces for book projects. Fonts* used on a book cover make the initial reading impression and, when properly chosen, prepare readers for how the reading experience will feel when they turn to the first page.
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