The minimum is usually four versions: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic, but that is just the beginning for fonts used for book design. Plus, like a trilogy or multi-part series, a font design commonly comes is a set of fonts. This is especially true now that fonts have hundreds of characters. It takes hundreds of hours and commonly a year or more to design a font. But the market for font sales is much smaller.
First of all, the time and effort required can be compared to writing a book. But, the situation is more critical for font designers. Now that authors are producing their own books, another wrinkle has been added. In this digital age, the question of font usage comes up much more than it used to. Here’s his report, and I suggest you bookmark this page, you’ll want to come back. Can they use the fonts that came with a software package in their book? On the cover? What about free font downloads, are those okay? I turned to type designer and author David Bergsland (whose last article here was Typography in Kindle? Yes We Can.) to straighten us out. Quite a number of authors have written recently to get some clarity on font usage.
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