I don’t usually get too heated up about fonts, but I’m so disappointed! My book is in production right now and I got an email from the printer telling me the font had not been embedded but that they have Ariel and Courier there and can embed inhouse for me. Yikes! Ariel and Courier??? I particularly chose Century Schoolbook.
I know it’s a dumb thing to obsess about, but I was married to Century Schoolbook and we got a divorce and nobody told me! I’m still not sure how it happened or if it can be fixed. I may just have to go with good enough.
When I set out to create a book, turning a long-held desire into reality, I did it with the intent to silently honor Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron, the writer/teachers who gave me the courage to write my own book. Both Goldberg and Cameron had first books of non-fiction about how to write. What’s courageous about this is they didn’t have a body of published fiction or even non-fiction behind them to point to and say “I’m qualified to write about the process of writing.” They gave themselves permission.
And they gave me permission, too. I got the content idea after reading Cameron’s Floor Sample, and I took several design ideas from Goldberg’s most recent print run of Writing Down the Bones. I even brought the book with me to the printer and said, “Why do these pages look better than other books?” It was because the paper the book is printed on is “natural” not stark white. So I chose natural paper, too. I also have about the same amount of pages and the same book size as Goldberg.
I can’t remember where I found Century Schoolbook. You know how at the end of books they sometimes have a “note on the type”? Believe it or not, I read those blurbs and study the type. And that’s how I found Century Schoolbook. I was so happy when it was right there in my Word font choices!
Not sure what happened along the way, but I know I wrote the original manuscript using Century Schoolbook. My sign (Aries) went retrograde today, so I don’t expect a quick resolution. If ever. I mean, it’s ready to go. Finally. And now this. Part of me just thinks, let it go.
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