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Top 5 Book Design Mistakes (Illustrated)

Top 5 Book Design Mistakes (Illustrated)

by Joel Friedlander | Sep 2, 2022 | Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing

People often ask me, “How can you tell if a book has been designed by an amateur? I mean, it’s just a book, right?” This reminds me of the author whose book I was designing a few years ago, who asked me, “Book design? What’s there to...
110 Type Ornaments to Use in Your Book (Plus a Free Download)

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

by Joel Friedlander | Oct 8, 2018 | Book Design

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...
Project Focus: Long and Complex Books Demand Attention to Detail

Project Focus: Long and Complex Books Demand Attention to Detail

by Joel Friedlander | Oct 1, 2018 | Book Design, Project Focus

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,...
Learn About the Color of Type Pages in Book Design

Learn About the Color of Type Pages in Book Design

by Joel Friedlander | Apr 16, 2018 | Book Design

When book designers or typographers talk about the “color” of a page of type, they don’t mean the colors printed on the page. In fact, this term often comes up in discussing purely black and white typographic layouts. In this case,...
Hyphens, Em Dashes, En Dashes—Everything You Need to Know

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

by Joel Friedlander | Sep 18, 2017 | Book Design, Editorial

I read on a grammar blog recently that “…the em dash is named after its length—it’s about the same width as the capital letter M.” This is a common error that arises from the fact that in many fonts, the capital “M” is the widest letter,...
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