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...
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...
Maybe you’ve never heard of Hermann Zapf, the legendary type designer and calligrapher who passed away this summer after a long and fruitful career. But that doesn’t mean you haven’t come in contact with his work. Zapf was more famous than many other...
I write today in praise of the humble indent. Not just any indent, like the kind you find at the beginning of paragraphs in a book. No, this is the opposite of a first line indent: it’s the hanging indent, which reverses the normal order. In a hanging indent 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...
