Scheming, Part 2

After you were all so helpful with my question about color schemes for the cover of my next book, now I have a question about the general text format. I was all ready to show you an image with some possibilities. Unfortunately, my computer decided it wasn’t going to turn that into an image. Nope. No way.

So, I’ll just have to ask you. Drop caps — yes or no?

A drop cap, if you don’t know, is when the first letter in the first sentence of a paragraph is very large and prominent. Usually, the drop cap is set into the body of the paragraph, but sometimes it stands above the first line. A drop cap can also be a different font, or it may be enclosed in a box, or followed by bold text… There are lots of style possibilities.

This will be a printed book, and maybe it feels a bit more important than an e-book. I want to get it just right. So, what do you think?

Should I drop the idea of drop caps, or go big with them?

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