Font and other considerations when writing a book [closed]

Question

Which font are mainly using writers, while writing a Book and also what things should be kept in mind while being a Writer.

Answer 1

To generalise, serif fonts are considered best for readability where long paragraphs of text are concerned (ie: a book). Which one to use may depend on personal preference or the style guide issued by the publisher.

Some popular ones for books are:

• Times/Times Roman
• Georgia
• Century Schoolbook

If you are going to write a book of any decent length in Word, a few guidelines:

• Backup your work frequently and keep a number of versions so you can backtrack if needed.
• Setup and use the Word styles so you can easily change fonts/formatting of the whole document easily. (I can't emphasise this enough)
• If your book is going to include a significant number of images, consider a proper DTP package instead of Word. Maintaining image placement in long documents in Word is better than it once was, but it can still go horribly wrong or waste a lot of your time.
• Use separate document files for separate chapters - don't keep everything in one big document - and check out how Word can handle such multi-file documents to produce indexes.
• Many publishers will expect the source material in DTP format so if the book is going to be handed to a publisher check what they would prefer.
• Really really consider a DTP package. Free ones are available - have a look at Scribus.
• If your 'book' is going to be published as an 'ebook' you can use a wider range of fonts as the amount of text the reader sees at a time can be controlled by them to improve readability.