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Justified Design

By Faith Martinmaas @theSaltyFlower

August 14, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Justified Design

There are a lot of things that can make a book unreadable: the content, the prose, the plot holes. The list could go on and on. For me, nothing makes a book more difficult to read than badly justified type.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, book Layout, column Layout, Design, justification, justification Settings, justified, justified type, layout, settings, Text, text Design, text Layout, type, typography

Widows, Orphans, and Other Abominations in Book Design

By Bryn Kristi

November 2, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Widows, Orphans, and Other Abominations in Book Design

Books come in all shapes and sizes, from picture books for children to 1000-page, text-only novels. No matter the book or who it’s for, design matters. The design can set the tone and expectations for a book. A reader expects something much different in the design of a horror novel compared to a romance. Good design is invisible, especially with text-heavy books. It is the lack of distraction that makes the design good. While image-heavy books can—and should—focus on aesthetics, how they are put together and designed should not distract from the content.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, Design matters, images in books, justification, typesetting, widows and orphans

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