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Should You Design Your Book in Microsoft Word?

By Denise Morales Soto @dmoralessoto

August 3, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Should You Design Your Book in Microsoft Word?

I can see the appeal of using Word to design your book since it is a program that is familiar to most of us, especially if you’re a writer. It’s a lot cheaper than InDesign, which is a more professional tool that is also very technical and has a steeper learning curve. However, there are many reasons why Microsoft Word isn’t the best tool for this kind of work. So, before you commit to doing all that work in this program, here are a few things you should take into consideration.

Filed Under: Design, Manager Monday Tagged With: adobe, Authors, best practices, book, Design, file prep, format, graphic design, InDesign, interior, layout, Microsoft, print, publishing, self-publish, Word

Font Matchmaking

By Denise Morales Soto @dmoralessoto

November 15, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Font Matchmaking

It isn’t easy to find fonts that go together and that suit your book, and there are some challenges and rules to keep in mind. But as difficult as this process may be, it is also a lot of fun and a great opportunity to let your creativity shine.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, Design, fonts, interior, layout, Ooligan, publishing, type, typefaces

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

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

Issues with Reflowable Ebook Layouts

By Michele Ford @fictionlass

June 14, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Issues with Reflowable Ebook Layouts

A reflowable ebook layout provides the flexibility necessary to display properly on the widest variety of ereaders. The problem with reflowable layouts, though, is the proper display. Readers can customize font, size, and alignment of the text in an ebook. Traditional mandates of book design must be altered or ignored for ebook design.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: ebook, eBooks, epub, layout, reflowable ebooks

Comfort in the Familiar

By Cade Hoover

September 23, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Comfort in the Familiar

My seventeen-year-old self was resurrected after discovering Mark Z. Danielewski was coming out with a new book on May 12, 2015. However, it’s not just a single book, but an ambitious series of twenty-seven! Pantheon Books published the first volume of The Familiar in May, to be followed by a new release roughly every three […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: book design, Design, ebook, Electronic Book, Ergodic, layout, Mark Z. Danielewski, ooligan press, Pantheon, portland state university, Print Book, publishing, Text, The Familiar, typography

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