Maybe you’ve never heard of Hermann Zapf, the legendary type designer and calligrapher who passed away this summer after a long and fruitful career. But that doesn’t mean you haven’t come in contact with his work. Zapf was more famous than many other...
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...
For the last two years, since the launch of BookDesignTemplates, we’ve been getting requests for specialty book templates. And I can see why. We originally launched with only 6 pre-designed book templates for Microsoft Word. They were best suited to novels,...
I know that it’s challenging to navigate the waters of the book publishing business when it’s all new to you. There is so much to learn just to get an idea of how all the pieces fit together. And like in most fields, the same questions seem to repeat...