Typophile

Good free font for book.

yamfox

I know, good fonts usually do not come cheap. But I am writing my first novel and typefaces are not something I can be spending money on because I am pretty much broke. But I might be able to get some better suggestions if I tell you that it is realistic si-fi and much of it has to do with robots. Some of the fonts I have been looking at are Perpetua and Trump Mediaeval and they are both very good, so something similar would be great.

-Thanks,
Yamfox

What is the content and tone of your novel? In what period is it based?

Use the Google Android fonts, I’m sure they’ve not been used in a novel, and a few people will get the joke.

Cheers, Si

It starts in period 1958 and ends in 2014.

it is realistic si-fi and much of it has to do with robots. Some of the fonts I have been looking at are Perpetua and Trump Mediaeval and they are both very good,

I don’t mean to be cruel — well, maybe I do — but if Perpetua looks good to you, you must be using it around a 14-point setting. And if it reminds you of robots & science fiction, I guess we inhabit different planets.

PostScript Perpetua never did work very well, and even i

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