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A Few Notes on Book Design Last update: 2014-05-20 A Few Notes on Book Design Peter Wilson THP The Herries Press c 2001 – 2009 Peter R. Wilson All rights reserved The Herries Press, Normandy Park, WA. Printed in the World The paper used in this publication may meet the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984. 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 6 5 4 3 2 1 First edition: August 2009 Short contents Short contents · vii Contents · ix List of Figures · xii List of Tables · xiv Preface · xv Introduction · xvii Terminology · xix 1 Historical background · 1 2 The Parts of a Book · 15 3 The page · 27 4 Styling the elements · 59 5 Picky points · 83 A Some typefaces · 93 Notes · 103 Bibliography · 107 Index · 109 vii Contents Short contents vii Contents ix List of Figures xii List of Tables xiv Preface xv Introduction xvii Terminology xix Units of measurement . xx 1 Historical background 1 1.1 Galloping through the millenia . 1 1.2 Making type . 2 1.3 Book types . 3 1.3.1 Type-related terminology 4 , 1.3.2 Blackletter 5 , 1.3.3 Oldstyle 5 , 1.3.4 Transitional 7 , 1.3.5 Modern 8 , 1.3.6 Square Serif 8 , 1.3.7 Sans-serif 8 , 1.3.8 Script/Cursive 9 , 1.3.9 Display/Decorative 9 1.4 Setting type . 10 1.5 Today . 12 1.6 Setting maths . 13 2 The Parts of a Book 15 2.1 Front matter . 15 2.1.1 Copyright page 16 2.2 Main matter . 17 2.3 Back matter . 18 2.4 Signatures and casting off . 19 2.5 Paper . 21 3 The page 27 3.1 The shape of a book . 27 3.1.1 The golden section and Fibonacci series 30 ix x CONTENTS 3.2 The spread . 32 3.2.1 A geometric construction 45 3.3 The typeblock . 46 3.3.1 Page color 48 , 3.3.2 Legibility 49 , 3.3.3 Widows and orphans 52 , 3.3.4 Paragraphs and versals 53 , 3.3.5 Footnotes 54 3.4 Folios . 54 3.5 Headers and footers . 55 3.6 Electronic books . 55 4 Styling the elements 59 4.1 Front matter . 59 4.1.1 Title pages 59 , 4.1.2 Copyright page 72 , 4.1.3 Dedication 72 , 4.1.4 Fore- word and preface 72 , 4.1.5 Acknowledgements 72 , 4.1.6 Contents and illus- tration lists 72 , 4.1.7 Introduction 72 , 4.1.8 Part title page 73 4.2 Main matter . 73 4.2.1 Chapter openings 73 , 4.2.2 Mixed portrait and landscape pages 73 , 4.2.3 Extracts 74 , 4.2.4 Footnotes and endnotes 74 4.3 Back matter . 76 4.3.1 Appendices 76 , 4.3.2 Endnotes 76 , 4.3.3 Bibliography 76 , 4.3.4 Glos- sary 76 , 4.3.5 Index 76 4.4 Type size . 77 4.5 Poems and plays . 77 4.5.1 Poetry 77 , 4.5.2 Plays 78 4.6 Selecting a typeface . 78 5 Picky points 83 5.1 Word and line spacing . 83 5.2 Letterspacing . 83 5.3 Abbreviations and acronyms . 86 5.4 Dashes and ellipses . 86 5.5 Punctuation . 87 5.5.1 Quotation marks 87 , 5.5.2 Footnote marks 87 , 5.5.3 Font changes 89 5.6 Narrow measures . 89 5.7 Emphasis . 90 5.8 Captions and legends . 90 5.9 Tables . 91 5.10 Number formatting . 91 A Some typefaces 93 A.1 Baskerville . 93 A.2 Bell . 93 A.3 Bembo . 94 A.4 Bodoni . 94 A.5 Californian . 95 A.6 Caslon . 95 A.7 Centaur . 95 A.8 Century . 96 CONTENTS xi A.9 Clarendon . 96 A.10 Della Robbia . 96 A.11 Garamond . 97 A.12 Joanna . 97 A.13 Sabon . 98 A.14 Walbaum . 98 A.15 Futura . 98 A.16 Gill Sans . 99 A.17 Goudy Sans . 99 A.18 Lydian . 99 A.19 News Gothic . 100 A.20 Optima . 100 A.21 Syntax . 100 A.22 Legende . 101 A.23 Goudy Handtooled . 101 A.24 Decorative . 101 Notes 103 Chapter 1 Historical background . 103 Chapter 4 Styling the elements . 104 Appendix A Some typefaces . 104 Bibliography 107 Index 109 List of Figures 1.1 Examples of some typographical type-related terms . 4 1.2 An example of the Fraktur style of Blackletter types . 5 1.3 An example of an Oldstyle Aldine/French type: Palatino . 6 1.4 An example of a Transitional type: URW Antiqua . 7 1.5 An example of a Transitional newspaper type: New Century Schoolbook . 8 1.6 An example of a Modern type: GFS Didot . 8 1.7 An example of a Square Serif type: Bera Serif . 9 1.8 An example of a Sans-serif type: Bera Sans . 9 1.9 An example of a Script/Cursive Brush type: Brush Script . 9 1.10 An example of a Script/Cursive Calligraphic type: Zapf Chancery . 10 1.11 An example of a Display/Decorative type: Cyklop . 10 1.12 The California job case layout . 11 3.1 Some page proportions . 29 3.2 Two spreads: Canada, 1992 and England, 1970 . 34 3.3 Two spreads: USA, 1909 and England, 1964. 35 3.4 Two spreads: France, 1559 and Canada, 1995 . 35 3.5 Two spreads: USA, 1949 and 1990 . 36 3.6 Two spreads: England, 1908 and USA, 1993 . 37 3.7 Two spreads: USA, 1931 and England, 1968 . 37 3.8 Two spreads: USA, 1994 and England, 1988 . 38 3.9 Title page design based on The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography (1988) 39 3.10 Two spreads: Italy, 1523 and 1499 . 40 3.11 Two spreads: France/Portugal, 1530 and Gutenberg, C15th . 40 3.12 Two spreads: Persia, 1525 and USA, 1975 . 41 3.13 Two spreads: USA, 1952 and England, 1087 . 41 3.14 Two spreads for ISO page sizes . 42 3.15 Two spreads: England, 1973 and LaTeX 10pt book style . 42 3.16 Two spreads: USA, 1967 and England, 1982 . 42 3.17 Title page design based on Adrian Wilson’s The Design of Books . 44 3.18 Two spreads: England, 1972 and Switzerland, 1980 . 45 3.19 Two spreads: England, 1969 and USA 1989 . 45 3.20 The construction of the Gutenberg page design . 46 4.1 Title page design based on Ruari McLean’s Jan.