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7 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Book Design

June 27, 2011 31 comments
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7 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Book Design including picking the right fonts and setting up your book pages

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The Death of Book Design

January 22, 2011 26 comments
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Book Design. (1452 – 2011). Born near Mainz, Germany, Book Design came of age in the heady atmosphere of Venice in the Italian Renaissance. He went through a rocky adolescence when he seemed to lose track of his roots, but matured into the confident and gracious Book Design of the twentieth-century’s Golden Age of Letterpress. [...]

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Book Design & Page Layout Software: A Guide for DIY Authors

November 8, 2010 48 comments
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Book Design & Page Layout Software: A Guide for DIY Authors. Compares Word Processors, Page Layout Software and Hybrid Programs as tools for DIY Authors who want to produce their own books.

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Beautiful Details, Beautiful Books: How to Recognize Oldstyle Typefaces

September 29, 2010 9 comments
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Beautiful Details, Beautiful Books: How to Recognize Oldstyle Typefaces including Bembo, a classic book typeface from fifteenth century Venice. Oldstyle typefaces are reliable choices for book design.

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The Big Book of Font Combinations by Douglas Bonneville

September 20, 2010
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The Big Book of Font Combinations by Douglas Bonneville is a unique resource to understand how typefaces work together to create different effects. It’s a source of inspiration and ideas for designers and typographers.

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