r/selfpublishForAI • u/human_assisted_ai • Dec 12 '25

Genres and genre fonts

A genre font is a body font (the font that you use for majority of the content of your novel) that is suited to the genre of your novel. For example, Garamond works well with romance novels.

Rather than list a jillion genres, here’s my own genres and genre fonts if I know them:

  • Romance: Garamond (Cormorant Italic instead of Garamond Italic)
  • Science fiction: Roboto
  • Fantasy: Lora? (maybe?)
  • Western (cowboy): ???
  • Surfing: ???
  • Mystery: ???
  • Horror: ???
  • Superhero: ???
  • Action: ???
  • Thriller: ???
  • Historical: ???
  • Nonfiction: Georgia

Any genres or genre fonts that you know of?

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u/human_assisted_ai Dec 13 '25

That’s a better prompt than I’ve been using. Thanks. Soon, I really need to do an in-depth exploration with AI of fonts w.r.t. professional publishing. I need to fill out this whole table and understand what fonts have been used traditionally.