Premium fonts for book publishing11/3/2022 ![]() ![]() The one used most frequently now is the version designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe. Named after the famed 16th-century French “punch-cutter” or type designer Claude Garamond, many versions of this old style face exist. It is inspired by late Renaissance-era type. The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which minion is between nonpareil and brevier. Minion is a digital typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems. These are superior to smaller caps that do not retain the same stroke weight. Versatile fonts will also support True Small caps which are designed to retain the same stroke weight as other letters and have a wider aspect ratio for readability. Oblique’s, on the other hand, are simply slanted versions of their roman companion with no major design differences, other than their angle. What is the difference? Well a font family that contains an italic font face will use an angled typeface that has different design characteristics from its upright companion and is designed specifically to be used as an italic font. You will also want a font that uses real italics rather than Oblique. It’s best to use just one or two font family’s but vary the font weight and style when needed. This is better than using a number of different type faces which will lead to inconsistency. ![]() A versatile typeface will contain a number of different font weights and styles such as bold, bold italic, semi-bold, Regular, Regular-italic, Light, Light-italic etc.Fonts that vary in weight and style will come in handy when you require captions, pull-quotes, or sub-heads that require a different weight or emphases so that they stand out from the surrounding text. ![]()
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