Coffee table book design differs from regular book design in several aspects. But first, let’s talk more about what exactly a coffee table book is. Honestly, it’s all in the name. A coffee table book is a beautiful publication whose job is to look pretty...
Many readers, myself included, like to annotate books as they read, and they usually do this in the book’s margins. Some nonfiction authors, however, use sidebars to make their own annotations; they provide additional context, anecdotes, or graphics to enhance 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...
I wrote about where to find free or inexpensive photos for your blog or book back in February 2010. Since that time I’ve mostly used Flickr and iStockphoto, where you can buy credits as you go and many web-size images are very inexpensive. For the first time,...
Ed: This post is one of a series on Book Design for Self-Publishers. In the first article we looked at getting the raw materials for your book design project organized. In the second we looked at an overview of the book design workflow. With this article we turn to...
