Google Fonts for Editorial Design
Do you want to design a book with beautiful typography and find you’re lacking the budget to purchase the fonts?
If you’re anything like me, you find yourself wanting to recreate the beautiful typography in your favorite books.
But when you’re trying to do this on your own, you quickly realize that professional fonts cost money. Luckily, Google Fonts has a bunch of free fonts you can use to achieve the same effect.
Below are 10 of my favorite 10+ Best Google Fonts for Your Book Layout.
How to Download the Google Fonts?
First, they must enter Google Fonts and search for the Font you need. Once in the URL of the Font you must press the “Download Family” button.
Then you will have to unzip the ZIP file and install the fonts.
10+ Best Google Fonts for Your Book Layout
There are a million things to take into consideration, from the story and audience to the genre and the author’s voice. But, one of the most important elements of book design is the typeface.
Finding the perfect font is tough, so we’ve created this list of the best Google fonts and links to download them for free.
Google Fonts offers a variety of free fonts for use in web projects or print projects. And one of the advantages is its search engine that will allow us to evaluate the design of the Font before downloading it.
- Roboto
- Open Sans
- Montserrat
- Poppins
- Source Sans Pro
- Noto Sans
- Oswald
- Roboto Slab
- Lato
- Fira Sans
Roboto
Roboto has a very clean geometric style. In addition, the Font has friendly, open curves that allow easy reading. Furthermore, this Font allows a natural size interpolation as it respects its natural width. Finally, these characteristics make a more natural reading rhythm possible.
Open Sans
Steve Matteson who was chief typography at Ascender Corp., designed Open Sans to be a humanistic sans serif typeface and has 897 characters in the type family.
This Font was later optimized for use on web and mobile devices, which had excellent results.
Montserrat
Julieta Ulanovsky was inspired by her walks through the beautiful Montserrat neighborhood of Buenos Aires to design this urban Font during the middle of the 20th century. This typographic project has its roots in revaluing what existed in Montserrat and putting it with a free license for public use.
Poppins
Poppins falls into the Geometric sans serif typefaces category of fonts. This typeface is characterized by having each shape of the monolinear letter and having optical corrections that were applied to the articulations of the strokes in order to maintain a uniform typographic color.
Source Sans Pro
Paul D. Hunt was the designer of the first open source typeface family made available to designers by Adobe. This Font stands out as a sans serif typeface oriented to user interfaces.
Noto Sans
Noto aims to beautify the web with its design and also to do it in all languages. This font family has Regular, Bold, and Italic styles.
Oswald
Typography is a central resource for designers and Oswald is a choice inspired by the ‘Alternate Gothic’ sans serif typefaces. The font is intended to be used on web and mobile devices.
Roboto Slab
Roboto is characterized by its dual nature because it has a mechanical skeleton and its shapes are mainly geometric. Another feature that this font stands out is the open and friendly curves.
Lato
The Lato font originates from the Polish language as it means “Summer” and was designed in 2010 by Łukasz Dziedzic and was originally published under the Open Font License.
Fira Sans
Fira was created for integration with Mozilla FirefoxOS, and also aimed to have wide readability on mobile devices.
