![]() Word 2007 seems to be set up for writing for the web. Word for Windows 2007 uses a sans serif font, Calibri, for its default font. ![]() It is a very readable font however, there are better fonts for your main body text. It is a condensed font designed for newspaper columns. The default typeface is Times New Roman with Word for Windows 2003. ![]() When it comes to choosing fonts, it is best, for both legal and practical reasons, to go with the fonts that come with MS Word or your operating system. It follows then, that if you do not want to use a sans serif font for headings, you have to use the main body text font for headings also. What you cannot do, is have two serif fonts on the same page, or two sans serif fonts on the same page. The main body text should always use a serif typeface however, the headings can be either serif or sans serif. While that is the most common usage, it is not mandatory. Usually, the main body text is serif type, and the headlines are sans serif type. The little extensions on the ends of the strokes of type are what distinguish serif type from sans serif type. Sans serif is more legible, and is therefore, more suited to headings. Serif type has been found more readable and therefore, is more suitable for the main body text. There are two major classifications of type: serif and sans serif. Fonts can also increase or decrease the size of your book thereby affecting the cost to print your book. Your choice of typefaces (fonts) affects the appearance and readability of your book. ![]() It involves typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), letter spacing (tracking) and kerning. Typography is the art and science of the design, selection, and arrangement of type. ![]()
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