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A Few Notes on Book Design

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Some fifteen or so years ago I started developing code for typesetting documents that would make it easy for designers to get the appearance they had in mind.

While doing this I read a lot about book design and have tried my hand at printing a variety of books and ephemera using hand set lead type and a hand operated Chandler & Price 1904 Old Style 8 by 12 platen press, pretty much as Gutenberg did some five and a half centuries ago.

These notes are partly based on my own amateur experience and feelings but the majority have been culled from the professionals.

These notes briefly cover some aspects of book design and typography, independently of the means of typesetting. Among the several books on the subject listed in the Bibliography I prefer Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style .

The notes originally formed the first part of a user manual for the memoir class for use with the LaTeX typesetting system developed by Leslie Lamport based on Donald Knuth’s TeX system . The manual was first published in 2001 and as the notes have grown in size and memoir’s capabilities have been extended the manual also grew to approaching 700 pages . At that point seemed advantageous to separate the design notes from the technicalities, hence this document.

PETER WILSON
Seattle, WA
July 2009

Language: English

Pages: 119

Format: Unknown Binding

Publisher: The Herries Press

Release: August 01, 2009

A Few Notes on Book Design

4/5 ( ratings)

Some fifteen or so years ago I started developing code for typesetting documents that would make it easy for designers to get the appearance they had in mind.

While doing this I read a lot about book design and have tried my hand at printing a variety of books and ephemera using hand set lead type and a hand operated Chandler & Price 1904 Old Style 8 by 12 platen press, pretty much as Gutenberg did some five and a half centuries ago.

These notes are partly based on my own amateur experience and feelings but the majority have been culled from the professionals.

These notes briefly cover some aspects of book design and typography, independently of the means of typesetting. Among the several books on the subject listed in the Bibliography I prefer Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style .

The notes originally formed the first part of a user manual for the memoir class for use with the LaTeX typesetting system developed by Leslie Lamport based on Donald Knuth’s TeX system . The manual was first published in 2001 and as the notes have grown in size and memoir’s capabilities have been extended the manual also grew to approaching 700 pages . At that point seemed advantageous to separate the design notes from the technicalities, hence this document.

PETER WILSON
Seattle, WA
July 2009

Language: English

Pages: 119

Format: Unknown Binding

Publisher: The Herries Press

Release: August 01, 2009

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