An excellent and efficient print font. Garamond 11/14 (line spacing a function of line length) reads very easily. on 11/16/11 2:13 PM, Robert Hirst at [log in to unmask] wrote: > Bob, > > The text body is in 10/14 Adobe Garamond (10 pt type with 14 pts > leading). Unusually large leading, partly because the line length on the > (new) 7 x 10 page size is almost an inch longer than in all our previous > books. The extract size is 9/12 and the extract within extract size is > 7/11Â∏. It's our impression that the text looks as if it were in a much > smaller point size than it actually is because the type itself is very > small-bodied. Compare, for instance, any volume in the _Letters,_ which > are in 10/13 Linotype Plantin, or _Huck Finn,_//which is in 10/13 Trump > Mediaeval. Both much easier to read. The forthcoming "reader's edition" > of the Autobiography goes back to our usual page size (6 by 9) and > boosts the text body size to 11/14. > > Cheers, > Bob > > On 11/15/2011 4:54 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: >> People ask me about the 2010 autobiography every now and then, and one thing >> they ask about is the point size. My guess is that the body of the >> autobiography is 7- or 8-point, and the quoted articles within the text are >> 6- or 7-point â•„ that is, the quoted articles are one point smaller than the >> body, whichever it is. Can somebody here confirm that or give me the correct >> point sizes? >> >> -- Bob G. >> >> P.S. Iâ•˙m sure it was mentioned here before, but I canâ•˙t recall when the >> second and third volumes are due. Can someone refresh my memory on that too? >> -- Linwood Cottage, Sheffield A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)