This third installment of Judging a Book by its Cover looks at great book cover designs that won the 2012…
Part 1 of Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover critiqued "professional" covers taken from Amazon's Editor's choice…
I recently responded to a question in a writers’ forum from an author who was in the process of designing…
Nothing screams “amateur” like a poorly crafted book cover. The standards for book design aspired to by trade publishers are…
The word processor has placed new burdens on writers to understand how to use italics, big and small capitals, dashes,…
NITIAL CAPITALS have historical roots in the early days of book design; their use predates the printing press and the…
This section on dashes, hyphens and dots goes beyond typographic aesthetics to explore how we can communicate more effectively as…
Use of Small Capitals—uppercase characters designed at lowercase scale—is one aspect of writing and book design that isn’t taught in…
Part 3 of Book Design Basics explores better ways to present numbers on your pages. Numbers (called figures) look simple…
Many readers still love to feel the subtle emboss of letters stamped on paper with metal type. I was rummaging…
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