{"id":28803,"date":"2019-03-05T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=28803"},"modified":"2019-03-05T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:11:25","slug":"the-season-of-the-handwritten-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=28803","title":{"rendered":"The Season of the Handwritten Font"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As advance reading copies\u00a0pile into the store\u2014those delicious packages full of promise!\u2014booksellers start to see a few trends emerge, especially\u00a0with\u00a0teen and middle-grade covers. It\u00a0made me laugh to scroll through a ShefTalker blog post I&#8217;d written almost 10 years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=1581\">The Season of Windblown Hair<\/a>, and\u00a0see which trends were still with us and which had mercifully gone away.<br \/>\nRecent\u00a0design seems to favor the handwritten font, a trend I actually like. It&#8217;s not brand-new, but it is everywhere! (Technically,\u00a0most of these are not handwritten fonts so much as fonts that look as though they could have been\u00a0drawn by hand.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28807 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Handwritten-Font-Books-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"1079\" \/><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s just a small sampling! It&#8217;s starting to make books with traditional fonts look almost obsolete.<br \/>\nIn my next trend post, I&#8217;ll highlight elaborate metal scrollwork on YA fantasy covers!<br \/>\nWhat trends are you spotting?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it doesn&#8217;t look hand-drawn, your book cover&#8217;s font may be old school&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}