I was recently looking through a knitting book, and the streamlined patterns, and elegant layout inspired me to take another look at my own self-published patterns.
The old versions of my patterns used an 8 point font size, a serif font, and occasionally a color other than black, which no doubt makes them difficult to read. Everything seems pretty boxy—lots of sharp corners. The typography was also pretty bland—basically just pasted in from a Word document, without much thought to variation in headlines vs body text.
I decided they needed a face lift, and in some cases a little more clarification for some parts of the pattern. I've taken a few of the best selling patterns to begin with, and I'm working on sowly upgrading the rest of them. Here's a peak at them. Please let me know what you think.
