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Book Design Quick Tips for Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander on February 13, 2013 34 Comments

Book Design Quick Tips for Self-Publishers presents common mistakes to avoid and how to select typefaces for use in your book

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book interiors, bookdesigntemplates.com, font, publishing, self publishing, typeface, typography

Square-Serif Fonts Pack a Typographic Punch

by Joel Friedlander on May 4, 2011 29 Comments

Square-Serif Fonts Pack a Typographic Punch including Rockwell, Serifa, Memphis, American Typewriter and many others including Chunk Five.

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: american typewriter, book design, chunk five, clarendon, egyptian typefaces, font, memphis, slab serif, square serif, typeface, typography

Typefaces I Can't Live Without: Adobe Myriad Pro

by Joel Friedlander on February 24, 2011 31 Comments

Typefaces I Can’t Live Without: Adobe Myriad Pro, a versatile sans serif font that can be used in almost endless ways in typographic designs like book design

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: Adobe, Adrian Frutiger, book design, Carol Twombly, font, Frutiger, myriad, myriad pro, Optima, popular typefaces, Robert Slimbach, sans serif, typeface, typographic design, typography, Univers

Fun With Fonts—Identifont

by Joel Friedlander on February 11, 2011 7 Comments

Fun With Fonts—Identifont typeface identification and search functions for book designers and typographers

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, David Johnson-Davies, font, graphic design, I Love Typography, identifont, type foundry, typeface, typeface identification, Typographica, typography, Typophile

Typefaces as History: Aldus Manutius and The Noble Bembo

by Joel Friedlander on October 22, 2010 23 Comments

Typefaces as History: Aldus Manutius and The Noble Bembo, showing how characters straight out of renaissance Italy influence the typefaces we use today.

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: Aldus Manutius, Bembo, book design, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, font, Francesco Griffo, hypnerotomachia poliphili, typeface, typography

Do You Know These 5 Ways to Use Negative Space in Your Book Design?

by Joel Friedlander on September 28, 2010 13 Comments

Learning to give different elements of the book page more or less emphasis depends on intelligent use of “negative space” in chapter openers, subheads, leading and other areas of book design.

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: book design, graphic design, negative space, typeface, typographic design, typography

The Typographer’s Curse: Automatic Leading

by Joel Friedlander on May 6, 2010 7 Comments

Automatic leading is about as satisfying as a robot dog. Increase or decrease leading to make your document look more professional.

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book publishing, computer typesetting, font, leading, self publishing, typeface, typesetting, typography

Apple iPad Typography: Fonts We Actually Want

by Joel Friedlander on March 1, 2010 39 Comments

We haven’t seen much of the Apple iPad yet, and the screen shots we have seen show that the fonts for the Apple iPad are perhaps not all they might be. What do we know? Apple, as far as I know, has issued only the one press release on the day of the product’s announcement, […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: Apple iPad, digital typography, fonts, graphic design, publishing, typeface, typesetting, typography

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