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...
Yesterday I introduced our new book templates for Adobe InDesign, and we’ve already had to field a lot of questions. So today I sat down and made this video to show you what the templates look like and a little bit of how they are used. I even make formatting...
Ed. note: This post (part of the Book Construction Blueprint series) was briefly published on February 2, 2010, and removed a few hours later. After hitting the “Publish” button I realized there were numerous images in the post that needed more than...
By David Bergsland Quite a number of authors have written recently to get some clarity on font usage. Can they use the fonts that came with a software package in their book? On the cover? What about free font downloads, are those okay? I turned to type designer and...
Can the fonts you choose have an effect on your author branding? That’s the question that keeps popping into my head as I drive around San Rafael the last couple of weeks. We don’t have many things to vote on, but one is a race for a seat on the San Rafael...
