I Showed an early version of my book to a crit group and got some feedback on what I had done so far.
At this point i had used Futura for my front cover and Garamond for the body text and one of the questions i asked the crit group was if they felt this pairing was suitable/complimentary.
Overall there were no problems with the typeface pairing and they seemed to work quite nicely together as it was a serif and sans serif combination, but as i had used movie scenes within my book it was suggested that i could use a typewriter font that would draw the link to the text being quotes from movie scripts, this was a suggestion i really liked and later implemented into my book.
A comment was made that the concept of the book was a bit too ambiguous/vague because I hadn't written what the book was about/doing and I hadn't labelled the movie quotes which made it hard for the reader to understand what was going on and tie a link between the movie scenes and images.
I went back and added the name of the movie underneath the quotes and added a preface to the book explaining the concept. This made it a whole lot easier for the reader to engage in the book.
It was also suggested that the "type in context" part of my title wasn't really needed. As i was trying to keep my book as simple and refined as possible i really like that i could refine it even more and didn't hesitate to remove it from the title.
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