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 | |
Layout 140 | |
Covers and jackets 160 | |
Paper 191 | |
Printing 210 | |
Binding 219 | |
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alignment approach baseline grid binding book design book designer's palette book's captions chapter CMYK colour columns create Cuckoo Wasp cyan cylinder diagram dot gain dots drawing edge editor elements example flatplan fold folio font foredge format four-colour German Wasp glued grid system gutter halftone horizontal illustration inter-word space John Braine layout letterpress Line graphs lithography magenta malar space margin marks millimetres Moiré patterns Name Name Name NIGEL COATES overprint paper Paper engineering paper sizes photographs pilcrow plate pop-up position printed printer produce projection publisher quads range reader reading rectangle referred relation reproduced right-hand running scale schulen zahlen screen sequence sheet Shift signature single sizes spine spread square style surface text and image text area tion Tree Wasp Type and image typeface typographic units vertical visual Wasp weight werktags und sonntags width words x-height yellow