Century Schoolbook is familiar to many in North America as being the typeface many first learned to read with.īenton used research that showed young readers more quickly identified letterforms with contrasting weight, but with the lighter strokes maintaining presence. Century Schoolbook is based on the earlier Century Expanded typefaces begun by Morris Benton's father. Both Book Antigua and Palatino are great typefaces for long documents.Ĭentury Schoolbook is a modern serif typeface designed by Morris Benton in 1919. The refined feeling of the typeface makes it an excellent choice to convey dignity and tradition.īook Antigua is a highly readable font similar to Palatino. These changes created a greater consistency in size and form. The curved strokes are more circular in shape, and the characters became more regular. He increased the contrast between thick and thin strokes, making the serifs sharper and more tapered, and shifted the axis of rounded letters to a more vertical position. The Baskerville typeface is the result of John Baskerville's intent to improve upon the types of William Caslon. It is classified as a transitional typeface, positioned between the old style and the modern style typefaces. Be sure to print them, as they look different on paper than they do on screen.īaskerville is a serif typeface designed by John Baskerville in 1757. The best way to choose a font is to print several copies of the same paragraph in different fonts. There are many good books on typography, if you want to expand your choices. Some fonts to consider for headings are Arial, Helvetica, and Verdana. Some suggestions are: Baskerville, Book Antigua, Century Schoolbook, Garamond, or Georgia. I don't know why, since most writing still gets printed. Word 2007 seems to be set up for writing for the web.
#BOOKS USING USE OF BOOK ANTIQUA FONT WINDOWS#
Word for Windows 2007 uses a sans serif font, Calibri, for its default font. It is a very readable font however, there are better fonts for your main body text. It is a condensed font designed for newspaper columns. The default typeface is Times New Roman with Word for Windows 2003. When it comes to choosing fonts, it is best, for both legal and practical reasons, to go with the fonts that come with MS Word or your operating system. It follows then, that if you do not want to use a sans serif font for headings, you have to use the main body text font for headings also. What you cannot do, is have two serif fonts on the same page, or two sans serif fonts on the same page. The main body text should always use a serif typeface however, the headings can be either serif or sans serif. While that is the most common usage, it is not mandatory. Usually, the main body text is serif type, and the headlines are sans serif type. The little extensions on the ends of the strokes of type are what distinguish serif type from sans serif type. Sans serif is more legible, and is therefore, more suited to headings. Serif type has been found more readable and therefore, is more suitable for the main body text. There are two major classifications of type: serif and sans serif. Fonts can also increase or decrease the size of your book thereby affecting the cost to print your book. Your choice of typefaces (fonts) affects the appearance and readability of your book. It involves typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), letter spacing (tracking) and kerning. Typography is the art and science of the design, selection, and arrangement of type.