Book pages, especially early in the design and construction of your book, are architectural in that they contain basic structural elements that need to be built on strong foundations, allow for ornamentation where appropriate, and pay attention to the execution of the...
I write today in praise of the humble indent. Not just any indent, like the kind you find at the beginning of paragraphs in a book. No, this is the opposite of a first line indent: it’s the hanging indent, which reverses the normal order. In a hanging indent the...
2021 Update – Check out the best free fonts of 2021 here! Book design begins with typography, and the biggest typographic decision you’ll make in designing a book is selecting the text typeface. As I said a number of years ago, as publishers “we want...
Many ebook readers—and not just us typography nerds and designers, either—have complained about the limited font set provided with the major e-readers. Considering the vast sums that have been spent on developing these devices, it’s always seemed odd to me that...
There are many nonfiction books that need an index to be complete. Although it seems that more books are published without indexes every year, savvy self-publishers know that including an index is one way they can make their print books stand out. A proper index...