Fonts: Free is Not Necessarily Good

First, free fonts are often poorly made. If you decide to use free fonts for your text, Lulu’s printers may not be able to print your book because of the technical errors contained in these fonts.
Second, most of the fonts that come from shareware sites are pirated copies of commercial fonts. The names are often [...]

The Best Fonts for Your Book

Open Type fonts are the best because they are cross-compatible with PCs and Macs. The internal coding (called unicode) allows a typeface file to have over 65,000 characters, a big improvement over the older typefaces that are limited to 256.
The second best are PostScript or Type 1 fonts. These are good for offset printing, especially [...]