Fav Book Fonts?

[cavetroll]

I did come across a website where the artist was selling professionally designed fonts but I lost it now. Back to square one so if you were creating a D&Desque type rule book what professional printed fonts would you pick for headings and main text, maybe a nice font for that big letter that starts a chapter?

 

[overgeeked]

I would go with Open Font License (OFL) fonts. They're free for commercial use and often as good as the expensive professional stuff. Some don't have the same number of features, but if you take a few minutes to look you can find regular, italic, bold, bold italic, display, text, etc fonts.

SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE

PREAMBLE The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and…

opensource.org

A good resource is this site.

1900+ Free Open Source Fonts (OFL) › Fontesk

Download free fonts licensed under the SIL Open Font License. Discover a curated, legit collection of the best high-quality free fonts for your design projects.

fontesk.com

Many of the most famous and recognizable fonts are based on old typeset so many people have gone back to the same sources and recreated OFL fonts of many standard favorites.

For particular fonts, almost nothing beats the Caslon and Caslon Antique combo seen in most of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay games. And no matter how '60-'70s it looks, there's something classic about Souvenir. Must be all that staring at the B/X books.