AUTHORS – Now HERE’s a topic worth considering when making or getting your book covers made 😀
Mock covers created using ShutterStock images.
FONT SELECTION
Whether designing a book or just the book cover, the choice of font is a very important design element.
- The right font on the book cover helps to attract the specific target audience.
- The wrong font anywhere on the book can be a sales deterrent.
- Overused fonts, like Times New Roman, Arial, Papyrus, Algerian, etc. can make an unfavorable impression with those who recognize them.
Fonts come in many different shapes, from rectangular to curvy. They can be simple or complex. They can be serif or sans serif (the little decorations that you see on the ends of letters). They can be thin or thick, light or bold.
So which font should you use for your book or book cover? That’s the million-dollar question. It’s worth taking time to consider it carefully.
It’s not hard to find a free or low-cost font…
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
I couldn’t agree more about the importance of choosing fonts.
When it comes to the body text, I tend to throw conventional advice to the wind. To say i’m blind as a bat is an insult to bats… So when i designed the paperback version of “Atonement, Tennessee” i did everything the way I wanted: font type and size, spacing between lines, etc. It was “readable” without having to make it a “large print” book.
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It Worked Teagan 😀
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