By David Bergsland Quite a number of authors have written recently to get some clarity on font usage. Can they use the fonts that came with a software package in their book? On the cover? What about free font downloads, are those okay? I turned to type designer and...
You’ve been working on your book, getting it ready for publication. Maybe you’ve hired a designer to create an eye-catching and sophisticated cover, and that’s usually a good idea. But let’s say you’ve decided to do the interior layout by...
Most self-publishers are concerned with book design for a few months during the production of their book. Book design is a specialty within the field of graphic design, in the same way that packaging design, or the design of signs are specialties. What this means is...
One of the first and most basic questions you need to answer if you’re going to be creating your own book design is: What fonts should I use? Since the beginning of the so-called desktop publishing era in the 1980s which was boosted by computers’ new...
If you’re a video gamer, or if you have one in the house, you may be familiar with the phenomenon of “easter eggs.” “A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page,...
