Which font do you compose in—and why?
I’m doomed. My preference is New Times Roman or Palatino, but a Slate item suggests that the typewriter-like Courier family is still the real favorite among literary stars.
But guess what. You know whose preferences in the end should count, even more than a publisher’s? The reader’s. And with HTML/XMLish e-books, that can happen. Yes, as long as I’m at it, I’m also curious what fonts TeleBlog community members like to read in, not just write in.
(Via Bookslut, which also carries a pointer to an L.A. Times piece on the deaths of the Carroll & Graf and Thunder’s Mouth Press imprints.)
May 29th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Verdana works for me for reading. I find it easier on the eyes than Arial, or even Tahoma. Although serif fonts are traditionally used in p-books, I find the sans-serif fonts better with e-books. If I wanted a serif font for reading e-books, I’d use something like Georgia.
May 30th, 2007 at 1:34 am
I agree with Joseph, and would actually prefer P Books with sans-serif fonts, however I do like the look of old book fonts (the type you see in Victorian novels). The old Courier font is dreadful for reading, although it looks quite stylish in an advertisement done in the style of the graphic attached to the story
May 30th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Carol and Joseph: Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and I hope others will add theirs. I myself tend to use the Times family for reading. The characters are sharp enough on my DT 375 for serifs actually to work when I’m using uBook. Georgia, of course, is another interesting possibility.
Joe: I haven’t forgotten that review I owe you–re the program you like. Don’t be bashful about jogging me via email.
David