What font should I use for the regular text in the Swords & Wizardry Core Rules? I want to use a serif font for sure, so that it's more readable. Several people have told me that Times New Roman is boring to the eye.
But I don't have the artistic-layout "eye" to gauge what other fonts might work well.
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Georgia seems to be a pretty good font...
Bundle of Holding - The One Ring™ 2E
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I like Old Bookman.
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ReplyDeleteYes, please nix Times New Roman. It evokes either newspapers or Microsoft (... or occasionally tasteful blogs such as you own). You might try Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, or Garamond. These can be be a bit large on the page, so where you might have a TNR as 12pt, you might want these at 11pt.
ReplyDeleteI've always liked Garamond on dead trees.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the old school look you are probably going for, I would suggest Footlight, GoldenType, Stratford, Swift, TenseC, or VremyaFWF. Centaur is pretty appropriate thematically, but the serifs are fairly small. Cushing is also borderline, with a more Victorian feel. Journal could also work, but it is a little plain.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't find any of those for free, just email me and I will hand them over.
ReplyDeleteI love the font used in Humanspace Empires, you should really ask The Drune on ixians.blogspot.com about it ^^
ReplyDeleteGaramond seconded and please. :) It's pretty and very readable. It's the standard font I've been using for RPG work.
ReplyDeleteArno is also nice.
Garamond is a very good choice. Linux Libertine is another good font (not just for Linux, despite the name).
ReplyDeleteGood suggestions so far. :)
ReplyDeleteFontin is also rather nice and comes in both serif and sans.
As they say, "when in doubt, use Caslon".
ReplyDeleteI dig Cambria, myself.
ReplyDeleteI really like Gentium. It's free and a joy to read in print.
ReplyDeleteGaramond is great. But make sure you get a good cut, Adobe Garamond Pro has some lovely Opentype features, such as swash caps, alternates and ligatures which, if used sparingly can add real character - italic/swash titles - amazing! (You'll need opentype compatible layout - InDesign, not OpenOffice).
ReplyDeleteI also like Palatino as a bookface.
Helvetica.
ReplyDeleteAdobe Caslon (or Gentium for a good royaltyfree typeface)
ReplyDeleteAnother vote here (from a guy who's looked at a lot of serif body text typefaces) for Adobe Caslon. Adobe Garamond is good too, but for whatever reason it might be a little more 'formal' than what you want.
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