Can I choose a typeface for my book?
Today the surest way is the design: pick a Foundation Design that uses the face you want and it is yours. Once your proof is built, you can also tell Cantos on Revise the face you would rather have, and it will say straight away whether it can set it for your book. A face picker of its own, separate from the design, is on our list; it is not built, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Can I send you my own font?
No. A press-ready file has to embed a font we hold a licence for and have tested through the whole chain, so Cantos sets only from this library. If the face you love is here, choose the design that uses it; if it is not, tell Cantos what you like about it and it will point you to the nearest one we have.
Why does a body face need a real italic and a real bold?
Because your manuscript uses them, on nearly every page: a title in italic, a term in bold, a thought set apart. A face with only a regular cut makes the renderer fake the rest by slanting or thickening the letters, and on a printed page that reads as cheap. Every body face on this page has all four cuts, and the ones that do not are labelled with what is missing.
Will the accented letters in my book print correctly?
Every body face here sets all six of our book languages. A few title faces cannot set accented letters at all, and the page says so beside each one, with the designs that use them. For a book in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese or Italian, choose a design whose faces set your language: the line under each specimen tells you which languages a face can set. For Noir in Spanish, Cantos already swaps its English-only title face for one that carries the accents.
Which face is best for my genre?
The designs already answer that: each Foundation Design pairs a body face and a title face chosen for its genre, and the designs page shows all twenty whole. If you need large print, Magnificent sets EB Garamond at 14 point, which is what this page shows for it.
Are these specimens really what I would get?
Yes. Each one was set by our own renderer and cut from the finished PDF, at the size the design uses, and the embedded font names were read back to make sure no fallback face crept in. What you see is what the press file carries.
EB Garamond as Elite sets it. Rendered by our own chain, not a mock-up.
