In Book Design Made Simple, we have given you samples and instructions that serve as foundations for your own book designs. And if you follow them, you can be certain that you have produced something very good. But are you confident about your work? Do you think it looks good? Do you wonder if anyone else will think it’s good? Do you worry that if you come up with ideas of your own they might be “bad”? [Read more…]
Typesetting
Below you'll find links to all the information about typesetting that’s available on our website, book, videos, and blog.
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Excerpts from Book Design Made Simple
- Running heads — what to include in your novel or nonfiction book
- Typeface vs font: what’s the difference?
- Hyphenation and justification settings: make your text look fabulous
- Baseline grid: aligns the text on all pages throughout your book
- Unequal column widths: how to set up a page layout with unequal column widths
Video tutorials
Blog posts
Below are all the blog posts in the Typesetting tag, starting with the most recent post.
Designing a cookbook
In Book Design Made Simple, we mention cookbooks a few times but never sit you down and explain in detail how to go about designing one. Once you’ve had some experience with designing and laying out other books, you’ll see at once that you’ll need to apply some extra effort to make a good-looking, readable cookbook. [Read more…]
