A couple of considerations as you determine font and font size:

Typical font size for books. 5.25 x 8 is my favorite size, easy to hold and really a very popular trim size throughout international libraries. Readers are used to reading serif fonts. Choose a font that is clearly legible at 14 points or smaller.

Other good font choices are: These book sizes tend to range from 6” x 9” to 8.5” x 11”. Publishers only deal with word counts.

Larger font sizes are more digestible, and will be more suited to typesetting 50 shades of grey than a franz kafka reprint. When i do that, it scales down the 8.5 x 11 pages of the original document to fit on the smaller book page size. This may depend slightly on your.

You’ll probably be familiar with these premium formats. Jenson —a more recent addition to. Most trade paperback books are printed in 10 or 11 point size, but some fonts require.

Here’s the commonly used range for college textbooks: For most genres, publishers accept first novel. What you read most often is easiest for you to read.

Actual font size depends on the specific font but most books are set at a size between 10 and 14 points. Garamond — developed in the 16th century by parisian engraver claude garamond, it is a popular font for books. Basically, the best fonts for books are simple and classic.