Book Design'Book Design' takes the reader through every aspect of the subject, from the components that make up a book, to understanding how books are commissioned and created, to the intricacies of grid construction and choosing a typeface. |
Contents
Past present and future | |
Approaching the design 23 | |
Grids 42 | |
Typographic palette 71 | |
Type 86 | |
Editorial structure 101 | |
Layout 140 | |
Covers and jackets 160 | |
Paper 191 | |
Printing 210 | |
Binding 219 | |
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Adrian Frutiger alignment approach back cover baseline grid binding book design book designer's palette book's captions chapter CMYK colour columns create cyan cylinder David Storey Derek Birdsall developed diagram Didot dot gain dots drawing edge editor elements example flatplan fold font foredge format four-colour glued golden section grid system gutter halftone head horizontal illustration inches inter-word space John Braine layout length letterpress lithography magenta malar space margin marks metal millimetres modernist Moiré patterns overprint Paper engineering paper sizes photographic pilcrow plate pop-up position printed printer produce projection proportions publishers quads range reader reading rectangle referred relation relationship reproduced right-hand running scale screen sequence sheet Shift signature single sizes spine spread square style surface text and image text area tints Type and image typeface typographic units vertical visual weight width words x-height yellow