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Originally Posted by meeera
Was coming to say this. With a decent font and either a short title or a thoughtful rearrangement into large title + small subtitle, this would be not absolutely terrible. And it signals the adult-audience nature of the book.
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Y'know, I am typically against making fun of, or denigrating, when "civilians" (no offense, Don!) make design so-called "errors" (forgive all the quotation marks, gang) about fonts. Designers get up on their hind legs and give normies the high hairy eyeball, about choosing a font that was popular, but now, Deee-ziners, in their infinite wisdom, have determined that it's overused, or no longer cool. That's some damned horsepucky, right there--nobody died and left designers as the end-all and be-all arbiters of what's cool in fonts. That's just...stuff going right to their heads.
But Comic Sans...man, that's been around a looooooong time and whilst it is highly readable--despite the sneers and jeers--it really is overused. Comic Sans, Papyrus (curse you, James Cameron!), Algerian (sigh) and a few others really do seem to show up everywhere.
And given tht this is not a child's book, in fact, but a book about childhood, I would consider something with a teeeny weeeeny bit more edge. Still kiddish, but not child-like.
Hitch