: Page header/footer in sans-serif font; body in serif? I want to use for chapter titles/section a sans-serif font and for the normal text a serif font. To be consistent: Should page header/footer

@Murray976

Your questions are very subjective and you can only get subjective answers to these kind of questions. It all depends on your typographic concept.

I assume that with header you mean the running header? If so I'd go with sans-serif for the header, if you also use it for the titling (on the book-cover) and the headlines, maybe you can even set the header in grey so it doesn't distract the reader.
For footnotes I used both, the typeface of the headlines and the typeface for the body-text, that really depends on what you think looks better! Most of the time I go with the body-text-typeface.

My main tip for font-combination (for a book) is to combine characteristics. Make sure they have the same x-height, compare the lowrecase a and the lowercase g, do they match?

Maybe you want to read "the big book of font combinations" by Douglas Bonneville to get some inspiration. You can also find a short guide on that on his website: 29 principles for making great font combinations, or you might want to read the suggestions by Hoefler & Co on this topic in their article four techniques for combining fonts

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