I'd suggest choosing one dark grey
color for body text, one to two bolder colors for primary accents, and a few lighter colors for secondary accent elements.
This allows you to designate different styles to different types of paragraphs e.g. one
style for the body text, a different style for the chapter headings.
Note: You don't usually want to use a sans -
serif for body text like # 8... but in some genres — mostly children or YA, it might be OK.
Resume writing expert Mildred Talabi said that the perfect font
size for the body text is 10 or 11 and 14 for sub-headings.
Use bullets or other appropriate symbols, insert rules (horizontal lines) to separate major sections, and use a 10 - to -12-point conservative typeface
for the body text of the resume.
I will provide a sampling of pages for you to review the fonts and text sizes
suggested for the body text, headings, and chapter pages, as well as any other textual and visual elements in the book.
For example, you might use one typeface for headings, and a different
one for body text; similarly in a numbered list you might use one typeface for the numbering and another for the text of the items in the list.
Multi-turn text: Use the default text size of < font size = «7»
> for body text.
Provided all are happy with the resume, and it gets you the interview, whether it's 14 point for the headings or 9
point for the body text is really immaterial.
And
as for the body text — well, dark grey is the new black (or am I being a typical minimalist New Yorker?)
In this case, pairing two serif fonts makes sense; by designating the more exaggerated serif choice as the display and the slightly less exaggerated
serif for the body text, your message retains consistency, while still making each font's function distinguishable.
This is typically using a serif font typeface for your headers (like Times New Roman or Garamond) and a cleaner, simpler sans serif
font for the body text (like Arial, Calibri, Tahoma, or Verdana).
It's best to use the old standards, such as Times New Roman and Arial,
for the body text.
And generally speaking, we rarely embed fonts
for body text (save for literary devices and foreign - language characters that may have incomplete support), so mileage may vary with ebooks that do use embedded fonts to replace body text.
The fonts must be legible (no fancy handwritten fonts
for body text, please).
It's common to use one typeface for headers and one
for the body text.
Elegant resumes tend to use lightly stylized header fonts paired with common sans serif fonts
for body text.