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110 Type Ornaments to Use in Your Book (Plus a Free Download)

by Joel Friedlander on October 8, 2018 33 Comments

Using type ornaments in your book design can add a pleasing pictorial element to your typographic pages. Depending on the tone you’re trying to establish with your design, there’s likely to be a choice of ornaments that will complement the other choices you’ve made when selecting fonts and the overall design direction for the book. […]

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: type ornaments, typography

Project Focus: Long and Complex Books Demand Attention to Detail

by Joel Friedlander on October 1, 2018 5 Comments

Two recent projects have reminded me of just how much attention book designers have to pay to details. With a complex book, every detail counts. What makes a book “complex”? It could be very long manuscripts, books with footnotes, endnotes, annotations, massive amounts of front matter and back matter, separate text streams, lots of tabular […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Project Focus Tagged With: book design, Conrad Osborne, David Brondos, fontds, typography

Learn About the Color of Type Pages in Book Design

by Joel Friedlander on April 16, 2018 5 Comments

Examples of book pages typeset in various fonts to demonstrate the variations in the overall color of your book page.

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: book design templates, Cochin, Filosofia, Garamond, Minion, typography

Hyphens, Em Dashes, En Dashes—Everything You Need to Know

by Joel Friedlander on September 18, 2017 22 Comments

The use and typesetting of hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes

Filed Under: Book Design, Editorial Tagged With: punctuation, typography

The Elements of Bad Typography

by Joel Friedlander on May 15, 2017 12 Comments

Editor’s Note: As more examples of “bad typography” appear, I’ll continue to update this article. And hey, you can send me your own examples for inclusion, too. (See the end of the article. Last edit on June 15, 2017.) Typography of one sort or another is all around us. And that’s why bad typography is […]

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: font, typography

Free Instruction for Authors: An Abundance of Awesomeness

by Joel Friedlander on August 1, 2016 4 Comments

Hey, it’s the depths of summer here in the northern hemisphere. You know what that means: long days at the pool with the kids; vacation notices bouncing back from my emails; work days that seem to end a lot sooner than in other months. Over here at The Book Designer world headquarters, we rarely take […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: blogging, eBooks, Martin Taylor, Matthew Broderick, typography, Yaro Starak

Book Design: The Architecture of the Book Page

by Joel Friedlander on February 29, 2016 10 Comments

Book pages, especially early in the design and construction of your book, are architectural in that they contain basic structural elements that need to be built on strong foundations, allow for ornamentation where appropriate, and pay attention to the execution of the book’s function of transmitting information from author to reader. Well, that was a […]

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: book design, margins, page layout, typography

Hermann Zapf, A Legendary Type Designer

by Joel Friedlander on October 12, 2015 14 Comments

Hermann Zapf, A Legendary Type Designer of Palatino, Optima, Melior, Zapfino and Zapf Dingbats along with some history

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: fonts, Hermann Zapf, Melior, Optima, Palatino, typography

Hanging in the Back Matter: Indents Are the Rule

by Joel Friedlander on October 5, 2015 16 Comments

Hanging in the Back Matter: Indents Are the Rule looks at formatting specifications and uses of the hanging indent

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, bibliography, book design, glossary, index, typography

5 Favorite Free Fonts for Interior Book Design

by Joel Friedlander on August 31, 2015 50 Comments

5 Favorite Free Fonts for Interior Book Design shows samples and gives information on Theano Didot, Alegreya, Crimson, Gandhi Serif, Rosarivo

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: Alegreya, book design, Crimson, Fanwood, fonts, Gandhi Serif, interior design, Rosarivo, typography

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