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A good article on kerning in InDesign magazine for July

Skilled Workman Posted on July 6, 2015 by David BergslandJuly 6, 2015

Kerning is that area of typography rarely talked about. Ilene Strizver has a good article on kerning, both what it is and how to accomplish it, in the July issue of InDesign magazine. One of the sure signs of a pro book designer is in the kerning of the heads and subheads. That along with solid widow, orphan, and runt control are major areas of page layout normally ignored completely by users of Words. Of course, the sad … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, News, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, kerning, letterspacing, professional, tracking, typesetting, Typography | Leave a reply

Some concerns before installing CC (2015)

Skilled Workman Posted on June 16, 2015 by David BergslandJune 16, 2015

InDesign Secrets has an important posting today. There are some concerns with the new update. Minor stuff. It uninstalls all earlier versions by default That can be fixed by unchecking Remove old versions in the Advanced Options in the CC app install dialog. Mac users must be running 10.9 or 10.10 It may not even update with the older OSes.

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InDesign CC 2015 offers paragraph shading in ePUBs

Skilled Workman Posted on June 16, 2015 by David BergslandJune 16, 2015

Another incremental release? Of course… But that’s to be expected. The whole paradigm of the subscription model is that the applications keep getting better and you get an automatic update as soon as it is released. There’s been a huge amount of work put into InDesign CC (2015), but most of it does not apply to us: producers of the artwork published as books in print and as ebooks. However, one of the new abilities is very helpful. It … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB3, Kindle book design, Recent Posts | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Amazon Kindle, CC, Creative Cloud, E-book, InDesign CC (2015), new release, new update | 6 Replies

Hermann Zapf is dead…here’s a video of him working…

Skilled Workman Posted on June 6, 2015 by David BergslandJune 12, 2015

Here’s a brief historical article about Hermann Zapf from Creative Pro:

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Posted in Font Design, News | Tagged dead, video, working, Zapf | 2 Replies

Quick and easy letterspacing in FontLab

Skilled Workman Posted on May 15, 2015 by David BergslandMay 15, 2015

I decided to post this. It’s part of my new book, Practical Font Design Streamlined. I found as I was recording the videos for My Udemy course, Practical Font Design, that I had gradually developed a new, much faster, and more efficient workflow for designing fonts. It takes what was in the original three editions of Practical Font Design to a whole new level. This post is going to offer some pieces which will be referenced in the new book. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Font Design, News, Practical Font Design, Recent Posts | Tagged design a font, font design, FontLab, letter spacing, new book, presentations, working graphic | Leave a reply

Writing a book title that works

Skilled Workman Posted on May 11, 2015 by David BergslandFebruary 5, 2018

To the left, you see the cover of a book I wrote which includes some of this information. Marketing your book seems too difficult. One of the major problems is the book title. Many things go into writing a book title that works. But it is an issue I’ve been pondering recently. The basic questions are: Who are you & what is your book? If you are like the rest of us, you’ve discovered (or soon will) that your … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Marketing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged book branding, book cover design, book description, book marketing, book titles, ebook discovery, how to sell books, keywords, titles | Leave a reply

Are you an author, for real?

Skilled Workman Posted on May 1, 2015 by David BergslandMay 1, 2015

I just read an excellent article in CreativePro called Are you a creative professional or a hobbyist?  The article is talking about graphic designers, but it equally speaks to authors and writers. The dividing line is the tools you use Every day I see questions on FaceBook, Google+, and the author groups and forums in which I participate. They are all basically the same. How can I do this or that without bothering to learn how? It’s usually written with … Continue reading →

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Beautiful typography has sadly diminished

Skilled Workman Posted on April 28, 2015 by David BergslandDecember 11, 2021

There has been a disturbing trend lately of incredibly gorgeous fonts that make bad typography. How can that be? Beautiful typography has become very rare. To understand that, we need to look at what good typography is. I often tell my students and apprentices this general principle. Beautiful typography is not noticed! You notice and absorb the content. If you notice the typography or font, you are missing the purpose of your design. Here’s an example of a new font … Continue reading →

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The Kindle fixed layout software moves books

Skilled Workman Posted on April 23, 2015 by David BergslandApril 23, 2015

As I mentioned a while ago, I made textbook versions of my two best sellers: Practical Font Design and Writing in InDesign. The process was very simple and easy. I just uploaded the PDF I had developed for download. It had a bit of color added, but it is basically the print version slightly optimized for viewing on-screen. The conversion was very fast and seemingly flawless. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, it’s just a wrapped PDF so far, with … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Production, Kindle book design, Recent Posts | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, Apple Inc., E-book, fixed layout, iBooks, IOS, IPad, IPhone, KDP Select, Kindle Unlimited, Scribd | 4 Replies

Marketing tips for fiction and non-fiction: it takes time

Skilled Workman Posted on March 23, 2015 by David BergslandMarch 23, 2015

Joel rarely writes for his blog any more, but it is a treat when he does. Today’s article is an excellent example of why his blog is so good: clean, concise, and useful. We can boil down the advice to the following: Fiction authors are unknown Fiction is marketed to a much wider audience who is initially unknown by the author. The new author  needs to work very hard on becoming known. Giving away books is essential as … Continue reading →

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