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Book Design Basics: Choosing a Book Font

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Design Basics: Choosing a Book Font

Selecting a book font seems simple enough, but important subtleties and fine points of typography are not obvious to the average writer. This article offers insights into fonts suitable for book typography. Though it won’t turn the average author into … More ☛

Tabs, Indents, and Margins: How to use the Tab Ruler

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Tabs, Indents, and Margins: How to use the Tab Ruler

This article explains the tab ruler found on every word processor and typesetting application. Understanding the simple and elegant split ruler and tab functions opens up a world of formatting opportunities. Digital typesetting and word processing inherited a number of … More ☛

Page Layout: Illustrated Books and the Rule of Thirds

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Page Layout: Illustrated Books and the Rule of Thirds

This article explores page layout strategies for books based on the Rule of Thirds. A grid system based on traditional guidelines ensures harmonious proportions and placement of objects on a page. Page layout for books is governed by a range of factors. Trade … More ☛

Book Cover Design: Moving from Screen to Printing Press

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Cover Design: Moving from Screen to Printing Press

Once you have your book cover design looking spirited and professional on your computer screen, how can you ensure that your masterpiece will translate accurately to the printing press? Ink on paper is an entirely different medium from pixels on … More ☛

Simulating the Appearance of Traditional Print

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Simulating the Appearance of Traditional Print

Digital typography offers capabilities that printers working with hot lead type and wood type could only dream of. Digital type can be stretched and resized infinitely, justified within unusual boundaries, or wrapped around almost any shape. And yet, traditional letterpress … More ☛

Fine Control Over Justified Text

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Fine Control Over Justified Text

Page layout programs like Adobe Indesign and Quark, allow typographers to exert fine control over justified text to remove gaps and “rivers.” The default settings produce “pretty good” results—better than a word processor—but a few small tweaks will dramatically improve … More ☛

Book Design Basics – Use Hyphens for Justified Type

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Design Basics  – Use Hyphens for Justified Type

Hyphens are an important contributor to elegant, easy-to-read typography, especially when text is fully justified as is the convention in book typography. This article explains how justified text works, and how proper hyphenation improves the legibility of your type. Text … More ☛

Book Design – Revisiting Classic Layout for Print and EBooks

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Design – Revisiting Classic Layout for Print and EBooks

Book design has changed since publishing became a gigantic industry. Typesetting was once performed by trained craftsmen who apprenticed to masters before inking their own plates. Phototypesetting arrived in the 1960s and by the late 1980s, digital publishing transferred the … More ☛

A Manuscript is Not a Book: Ten Tips for Manuscript Preparation

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 18, 2024
A Manuscript is Not  a Book: Ten Tips for Manuscript Preparation

In my work with writers, I come across many common technical problems with manuscripts. These usually spring from the best of intentions as the writer attempts to create the feel of the finished book within the manuscript. Though they’re trying … More ☛

Book Design Basics Part 3: Running The Numbers

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Design Basics Part 3: Running The Numbers

Part 3 of Book Design Basics explores better ways to present numbers on your pages. Numbers (called figures) look simple at first glance, but they present interesting typesetting challenges. Many digital typefaces offer several number styles but few designers know … More ☛

Book Design Basics Part 1: Margins and Leading

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Design Basics Part 1: Margins and Leading

Book design is a lost art. Though book design discussions usually focus on covers, consider how much more time a reader spends staring at the text. An elegant book block is just as important. Decades ago, professional tradesmen practiced the … More ☛

Book Design Basics Part 2: Optical Margins, Indents and Periods

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Design Basics Part 2: Optical Margins, Indents and Periods

Part 2 of Fundamentals of Book Design explores optical margins, paragraph formatting and spaces. Read about margins, layout and leading in Part 1. The self-publishing revolution is (aside from the Internet) the greatest thing ever to happen to freedom of … More ☛

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