When we first published Stephen Brooke’s trilogy of Cully Beach mystery novels, we used Bitstream’s Transitional 521 as the text typeface. We sorta-kinda were licensed to use it; a large Bitstream catalog came bundled with our Corel software (which we still use). The licensing, however, was admittedly a bit vague about how the fonts could be used commercially. POD and desktop publishing were not on much of anyone's radar at the time.
We decided a while back, therefor, to no longer work with their fonts. Not that anyone was ever likely to complain but we are now using open source/open license typefaces where practical, and type from the Softmaker catalog (for which we are fully licensed) when necessary. Transitional 521 was Bitstream’s clone of Electra. A lovely typeface, by the way, so when we decided to replace it we wanted something with a similar vibe to it. What we ended up with was Dihjauti by T. Christopher White, a free font issued under the SIL license.
It looks good in print, at least as body text, and we are satisfied with it in the newer editions of the Cully Beach books. That does not mean we would use it if the series ever expands beyond the original trilogy. We might wish to differentiate any new books and there are plenty of other good choices. Dihjauti is readily available online from the various free font sites.
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