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Sewing Your Own Parachute — Advice About Book Covers
The World's Greatest Book I recently responded to an article on Publishing Perspectives by Andrew Pantoja that innocently advises self-publishers about sources for cheap book covers. It is technically...
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Book Design Basics Part 1: Margins and Leading
The World's Greatest Book Book design is a lost art. Though book design discussions usually focus on covers, consider how much more time a reader spends staring at the text. An elegant book block is...
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Book Design Basics Part 2: Optical Margins, Indents and Periods
The World's Greatest Book Part 2 of Fundamentals of Book Design explores optical margins, paragraph formatting and spaces. Read about margins, layout and leading in Part 1. The self-publishing...
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Book Typography: The Crystal Goblet by Beatrice Warde
The World's Greatest Book Here is the first of a series of occasional posts that explore the contributions of great typographers and typography books to the book designer’s art. Designers, writers and...
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The Single Most Important Contribution to Publishing
The World's Greatest Book Though I create eBooks and write about them extensively, I’m a classic bibliophile who loves to feel the subtle emboss of letters stamped on paper with metal type. I was...
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Book Design Basics Part 3: Running The Numbers
The World's Greatest Book Part 3 of Book Design Basics explores better ways to present numbers on your pages. Numbers (called figures) look simple at first glance, but they present interesting...
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Book Design Basics — Dashes, Hyphens and Dots
The World's Greatest Book I particularly like this section on dashes, hyphens and dots because it goes beyond typographic aesthetics to explore how we can communicate more effectively as writers. The...
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Book Design Basics: Small Capitals – Avoiding Capital Offenses
The World's Greatest Book Use of Small Capitals—uppercase characters designed at lowercase scale—is one aspect of writing and book design that isn’t taught in grammar school. We all know every sentence...
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Book Design Basics — Drop Caps and Initial Impressions
The World's Greatest Book NITIAL CAPITALS have historical roots in the early days of book design; their use predates the printing press and the invention of moveable type. Today’s initial caps are not...
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Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by Its Cover — Part 1
The World's Greatest Book Nothing screams “amateur” like a poorly crafted book cover. The standards for book design aspired to by trade publishers are not all that high, but self-publishers routinely...
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