You’ve been working on your book, getting it ready for publication. Maybe you’ve hired a designer to create an eye-catching and sophisticated cover, and that’s usually a good idea. But let’s say you’ve decided to do the interior layout by...
Most self-publishers are concerned with book design for a few months during the production of their book. Book design is a specialty within the field of graphic design, in the same way that packaging design, or the design of signs are specialties. What this means is...
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,...
