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The font is there to set a mood and context. It has to be legible, but it also has to signal what readers are going to get. No one is going to set a science f

The font is there to set a mood and context. It has to be legible, but it also has to signal what readers are going to get. No one is going to set a science fiction novel in this. It would be too weird. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_English_typeface.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_English_typeface... Similarly using different fonts for title, subhead, and body gives readers a preview of the content. Abolition is good for the title. Personally I didn't agree with the subhead choice because I thought it was too on-the-nose and cliched. But it's a fine line, and originality always has to be balanced with expectation.

bambax 4y ago
> Abolition is good for the title. / Personally I didn't agree with the subhead choice Well... that confirms my point: it's arbitrary, a matter of opinion, and therefore, everyone is going to have a different preference.
Archelaos 4y ago
> No one is going to set a science fiction novel in this. It would be too weird. Well, Carl Amery's "Der Untergang der Stadt Passau" at least includes passages styled after medeavial chronicles, that are set in Fraktur. As a university teacher of mine once said: Write down a set of rules for a genre and you get a manual on how to violate it.