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What Typography Choices Can Reveal About Politics

By Jill Bowen

June 23, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

What Typography Choices Can Reveal About Politics

There is a pattern that oppressors use to weaponize language when they are creating their brands. It’s a familiar tactic that can be detected by a subtle or blatant switch in font and color in political propaganda. The signs that represent the ideology start out benign, with serifs or organic curves to suggest brotherhood, unity, and a concern for all. Then they shift to sans serif, bold, and blocky fonts to make the ideology stand out.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: 2020, campaigns, dictator, elections, font, ideology, manipulation

Arial versus Garamond: Tips of the Trade for Making Font Choices

By Emma Wolf

April 12, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Arial versus Garamond: Tips of the Trade for Making Font Choices

Your chosen font should invoke the messaging of the book and how you want the reader to feel while immersed in the writing. The right font is something the reader may not even notice because it flows so well with the content, whereas the wrong font can seem awkward and out of place, creating a jarring reading experience.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Arial, book covers, book design, book interiors, Comic Sans, cover design, font, font family, Garamond, sans-serif, serif, Text

Different Places, Different Faces: Book Covers in the US and the UK

By Meagan Nolan

June 12, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Different Places, Different Faces: Book Covers in the US and the UK

As the cover of a book communicates to the potential reader what lies within, many conventions have emerged to highlight certain genres, such as an old photograph that promises a memoir, or a shirtless muscular man that promises a romance novel. To investigate further, we’ll look at four popular books sold in both the US and the UK and see what each cover has to say about the same story.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: audience, background, book covers, color, cover design, fantasy, font, genre, illustrations, international, memoir, mystery, photographs, popular books, publishers, publishing houses, reader, romance, thriller, UK, United Kingdom, United States, US, young adult

Tips and Tricks for Good Interior Design

By Courtnee' Morin

October 12, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Tips and Tricks for Good Interior Design

While the interior design of a book may not always be as flashy as cover design, it is just as, if not more important. A book with a good layout and design may not always get noticed, but a book with a bad interior can ruin professionalism and even lose readers. With these tips, sticking to industry standards when necessary, but utilizing creative practice where possible, the interior design of your book can become the backbone needed for its content and cover to shine.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: 50 Hikes, blogging, book-interior, font, interior design, layout, Ooligan, tips, trim-size

Book Covers and Bandwagons

By Emma Hovley

March 16, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Book Covers and Bandwagons

Before I dive into the complex world of book covers, I should confess that my rudimentary and frankly half-hearted initial search quickly turned into a passionate and intense hunt for cultural trends, typography, and design. It turns out that book covers are fascinating and not altogether unlike clothing fashion. Just as I wear styles first adopted by fashion icons who convince me of their chic-cool factor (I’m looking at you, overalls and turtlenecks), there are design bandwagoners for book covers as well.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, cover design, Design, font, trends, typography

The Times Supremacy

By T. J. Carter

September 22, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Times Supremacy

Every teacher ever told me to submit papers typed in Times New Roman, twelve-point font, double-spaced; I assumed it was the be-all and end-all of professional-looking typefaces. Times New Roman was so ingrained in my being that the idea of using another typeface hadn’t even occurred to me.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: academia, digitization, font, history, newspaper, résumé, sans-serif, serif, standard, Times New Roman, typeface, typography

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