Question about Fonts

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Author Message valezar New member Username: valezar Post Number: 44 Registered: 06-2006 Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 12:47 pm:    Is there an industry standard for sending in a manuscript regarding font size and style? What is it? If not, what size/style do you use? Thanks Gary Blankenship Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 8828 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 12:51 pm:    Readable, nothing odd or fancy. I like 14 point Times New Roman, but use 12 if 14 makes lines dangle past the right margin. Some publishers will tell you how they want it, they should get what they ask for. Smiles and good luck. Gary A River Transformed The Dawg House July FireWeed more War/Peace valezar New member Username: valezar Post Number: 45 Registered: 06-2006 Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 12:55 pm:    14 seems aweful big to me. I'm using 10 right now. I'll compromise and go to 12 ;) How about in most poetry books, is there a standard? TNR? Trying to measure out how many actual book pages I have, and trying to stay on track. Thanks for helping the newbie Gary Blankenship Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 8829 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 1:17 pm:    I'm looking at the Wild anthology and it used 12. Most do. If you are self-publishing, you might consider 14/bold for titles. Smiles. Gary A River Transformed The Dawg House July FireWeed more War/Peace ~M~ Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 8056 Registered: 11-1998 Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 2:48 pm:    Mr. B has given you excellent advice to use Times New Roman for submissions, valezar. It's highly readable and easy on the eyes. Editors, particularly ones with vision problems like me, appreciate bigger, readable fonts. As to what font most books are set in, that would be Georgia. It's considered one of the most readable font types ever developed. It's what we use here at Wild for that reason. It also has serifs -- those little tiny lines you see on the bottom of most letters. Fonts with serifs are considered much easier to read over extended periods of time than fonts with no serifs. Use serif fonts for the major portions of text, san serif fonts for headlines and titles. Hope that helps. Love, M valezar New member Username: valezar Post Number: 46 Registered: 06-2006 Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 2:51 pm:    great advice, I'm on it!