I recently came across the announcement of a new typeface with an unusual design. A reader directed me to an article in the U.K.-based Mail Online: The free ‘gravity’ font that could make reading online easier for dyslexia sufferers Apparently there are...
One of the first and most basic questions you need to answer if you’re going to be creating your own book design is: What fonts should I use? Since the beginning of the so-called desktop publishing era in the 1980s which was boosted by computers’ new...
I just finished judging half the entries in the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) annual Book Awards competition. This contest is open to members of BAIPA, an organization that includes many self-publishers but also small independent presses,...
Hi, my name is Joel, and I’m an addict. Like a lot of you, my graphic design addiction started innocently enough. It was long ago, in a different and simpler time. There I was, designing brochures and advertisements, keeping the waxer hot and the t-squares lined...
Anyone who wants to do their own book design can spend some very worthwhile time studying books that are old. I mean really old, like going all the way back to the beginning of printed books. Early on, I found these books and the book typography that’s used in...