Son of I Get Searches

do you like palatino Yes, I do like Palatino! I very nearly used it for my books. I can’t remember why I didn’t, in the end: I think it was because it looks weird when used for extended sections in italic. what country do school books come from? Well, the only one I have to […]

Font saga continued and thoughts about tropes

Well, both books are now in Bookman Old Style (I typed that ‘Boomkan Old Style’ the first time round, which sounds like an explosive device out of an Evil Dead movie) and I think I’ve dealt with all the mysterious extra pages, and the pages at the end of a chapter with only two words […]

Palatino Linotype is not Palatino…

… as I discovered yesterday when trying to upload a document in a font I thought Lulu recognised. My fault for not reading the font guidelines closely enough. So, I’ve been mourning Palatino Linotype and seeing how the book looks in various other font types. And yes, I realise that this is a first-world problem. […]