Janson вЂ“ Designed by the Hungarian Nicholas Kis in the 17th century, the design was mistakenly attributed to the Dutch printer Anton Janson.

ItвЂ™s known for its graceful, flowing style and humanistic elegance. The one used most frequently now is the version designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe. Garamond вЂ“ Named after the famed 16th-century French вЂњpunch-cutterвЂќ or type designer Claude Garamond, many versions of this old style face exist.YouвЂ™ll find links to the vendor of the fonts as well. Here are five typefaces that have become favorites and which will almost always look great in your books too. So the choice of your basic typeface looms large when you sit down to design your book. Any idiosyncrasy in the type design will be magnified by the repetition of typesetting 75,000 or 100,000 words in thousands of lines on hundreds of pages. Some fonts really lend themselves to book design while others, which look good in a brochure or on a business card or billboard, make odd, unreadable books. Books are pretty conventional objects, after all. The accumulated expectations of 500 years of book readers also come into play. Style and fashion also play their part in many book designs, particularly in popular niches.

A book by its nature is a long reading experience, and as book publishers we want our books to be as easy to read as possible while communicating the authorвЂ™s intent. ThereвЂ™s no bigger decision you make in designing a book than picking the body typeface.

Calisto mt font history and usage