That's actually a really loaded question *grin*. First the short answer...I recommend Garamond Pro. It was designed for exactly that...large blocks of text. As for proper spacing between letters on interior text...that's a combination of factors that include kerning, leading, hyphenation and justification settings, and font. Garamond on its own without any odd settings anywhere else is always spaced well, and extremely legible which is, after all, what we're after. Justification is always going to make some lines a little wonky vs others, which is the price we pay for the legibility that comes along with justification. But if you're using InDesign to do the interior you can tweak the justification settings to make it more, or less, appealing. I never use Word for graphic production so I can't speak to whether it allows you to tweak those settings or not. I know you can't in Vellum...you must live with whatever they are using behind the scenes. It's a tangled web that your graphic designer can help you slice through. 🙂

My pleasure 🙂

Good question! I always work with the kerning to get the fonts spaces just how I like with a title, but I don't scale them horizontally if that makes sense? Because it can make the font look odd. For titles, I don't mind spending the extra time and effort to get that spacing exactly right and I do think playing with kerning and overlapping letters makes for some interesting effects on a cover. I would never go to that amount of work for interior text though. I use a solid font as-is for interior layouts. Cover titles are more art than text so more worth the effort 🙂

Awww! Thank you! It really is easy to get lost down the rabbit hole of cover design isn't it!

Congratulations on getting the titles back! I'm glad this was helpful but let me know if you have any questions when the time comes!

Designers always have their favorite go-to fonts, which do seem to change over the years with the seasons. That's why I try to stick to classics...always stylish. Like nice black pants 😀 And you're right...it doesn't matter what font you select for an ebook file. The end user gets to choose what they see, which is the whole point of eBooks anyway. All of this only matters on the cover, or for print books.

Do you have a recommendation for an interior font that doesn't require so much tweaking for proper spacing between letters?