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Book Design Webinar: What You Need to Know In 17 Short & Awesomely Simple Steps

by Joel Friedlander on May 3, 2011 15 Comments

Book Design: What You Need to Know In 17 Short & Awesomely Simple Steps, a webinar that can be used for educational or training purposes

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing, Training Tagged With: book design, presentations, Readability, self publishing, type fonts, typographic design, 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

Book Design to Sell: Fonts for Books

by Joel Friedlander on January 21, 2011 11 Comments

Book Design to Sell: Fonts for Books with Laura Cross. In an interview Joel Friedlander talks about how to choose fonts for self-published books

Filed Under: Book Design, Interviews, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe fonts, book design, Carol Twombly, Expert-Entrepreneur, fonts for books, Laura Cross, self publish book, self-publish a book, typefaces, typographic design, typography

7 New Typeface Combinations for Book Design

by Joel Friedlander on October 12, 2010 33 Comments

7 New Typeface Combinations for Book Design including typefaces for seven different genres of books, including Garamond, Janson, Helvetica and many other typefaces.

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: body type, book design, book designer, book publishing, display type, self publishing, typeface combinations, typefaces, typographic design

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

Book Design: 8 Solutions to the Text Break Dilemma

by Joel Friedlander on June 30, 2010 31 Comments

Book designers use various typographic designs to solve the dilemma of making good-looking pages with text breaks. Here are 8 Solutions that use typographic ornaments, pictographs, bullets and regular type characters, each of which gives a different color to the page.

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book designer, text breaks, type ornaments, typographic design, typography

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