SO MANY FONTS

[bobtheenchantedone]

Tell me of your favorite fonts! More generic/widely used ones are best (I'm trying to find a couple to use in InDesign for our tutorial books) but I'm happy to hear about crazy ones as well.

[Portia]

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

I'm loving Sevillana, Alex Brush, the Cinzel family, the Ostrich family, and Pacifico. All free!

[Digit]

Basic Commercial Black, Futura, Futuramano Light

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Comic Sans!

[Portia]

Comic Sans!

BAN THIS MAN.

[Violet]

Let me refer you to The League of Movable Type. I use Raleway, League Gothic, and Linden Hill fairly frequently. Ostrich Sans played a role in one of my bigger projects.

[Katya]

If you want to go very vanilla, I like Garamond and Georgia for serifed fonts and Trebuchet for sans-serif fonts.

Somewhat more decorative, I like Cochin, Humanist, and Linotype Windsor.

I have a running list of (mainly decorative) fonts I've come across in books that I really liked, but I haven't yet transferred them all to my fonts pinboard, so I don't remember what all of them look like.

[Portia]

Let me refer you to The League of Movable Type. I use Raleway, League Gothic, and Linden Hill fairly frequently. Ostrich Sans played a role in one of my bigger projects.

Raleway is sexy.

[Imogen]

I'm really into Century Schoolbook right now

[bobtheenchantedone]

Thanks guys! New, related question: would anyone like to dispense general book design advice/see a rough draft of a tutorial and give opinions? I'm gradually finding ways I like to do things (and I do have some design experience from my school newspaper days) but I'd love a second opinion. Or several second opinions.

[Digit]

Here's a book on book design.

[bobtheenchantedone]

I'll see if I can skim through that to get some advice. As usual, I assumed this would be easy and now have about two weeks to get this book put together and published.

[Whistler]

margins have a huge impact on how a book feels. It seems like you can make a book feel fancier by making large margins (or maybe they do that so you have room for notes?). This is also more expensive, since it takes up more paper. How do other people feel about big book margins?

[Digit]

In the spread on the right on page 38 (page 60 of the pdf) I referenced above, the outer margin is like half the page. That's probably too much

[bobtheenchantedone]

I am working with that! We're already making the book 8x11, so we have plenty of room to work with, and since I decided to do double columns I'm making the spaces between the columns pretty big as well. It makes everything look much less crowded.

Sorry if I overuse exclamation points and all caps in this thread. I am super excited and scared and stressed at the same time.

[Portia]

I hate the new Pandora font. >.<

[Portia]

The online radio service, to clarify.