I’ve been working for several months on a book that’s just getting ready to go to press. It’s the first book I’ve typeset in the Century typeface in quite a while. Century isn’t one typeface. It’s actually a family of related...
You’re an author, and you want to self-publish. After all, the juice seems to be flowing toward self-publishers, more authors are rethinking their approach to publishing, and new opportunities seem to be opening up to self-publishers every day. The indie spirit...
Case Study: Courage and Croissants: Inspiring Joyful Living, A Story and Life Guidebook, by Suzanne Saxe-Roux, Ed.D. and Jean P. Roux, Ph.D. Design brief: Create a hybrid book design for a manuscript that is two-thirds narrative, and one-third a sort of self-help...
Case Study: Opening the Gates of the Heart: A Journey of Healing, text and photos by Carolyn CJ Jones Design brief: Use the author’s prototype book as an inspiration for a book design and manage a cost-effective production of a hardcover full-color book....
In Brief: In book design we have to decide which style of pagination to choose. This article presents both so you can make an informed choice. People often seem to divide themselves neatly into two camps: shirts versus skins, innies versus outies, grow it out versus...
Indie Author April Hamilton responded to my post about typeface combinations for book design with a note about ebooks: Joel – Those font combintations look great, but I can only shake my head and sigh knowing none of them would survive the conversion to Kindle...
