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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

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

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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