Selecting a book font seems simple enough, but important subtleties and fine points of typography are not obvious to the…
Digital typography offers capabilities that printers working with hot lead type and wood type could only dream of. Digital type…
In my work with writers, I come across many common technical problems with manuscripts. These usually spring from the best…
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…
Few subjects arouse more passion among writers and designers than the debate over how many spaces should follow a period.…
Nothing screams “amateur” like a poorly crafted book cover. The standards for book design aspired to by trade publishers are…
Part 3 of Book Design Basics explores better ways to present numbers on your pages. Numbers (called figures) look simple…
Part 2 of Fundamentals of Book Design explores optical margins, paragraph formatting and spaces. Read about margins, layout and leading…
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