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What we need in a font family for books

Skilled Workman Posted on August 26, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 26, 2013

As typographers and book designers, we need a minimum three-font family—regular, italic, and bold: Italic is necessary for periodical names and emphasis. Bold is used for proper names and headers. As you saw at the start of this paragraph I used a bold through the colon to emphasize an important point. In my books I use my Bold Sans Serif. But regardless of which font family you choose it must satisfy several basic requirements of book design. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Book Design, book fonts, design, font, font for books, graphics, Italic type, oldstyle figures, Sans-serif, small caps, Times Roman, Type color, Typeface, Typography | Leave a reply

The Book Designer’s Book Typography and Fonts package

Skilled Workman Posted on April 2, 2013 by David BergslandOctober 4, 2017

Make your book professional with the Contenu/Buddy production group Self Publisher Book Typography & 16 Fonts Only $49.99 or 12 Radiqx house fonts for book design Only $29.99 For self publishers the conversion from Word to InDesign is a huge leap. The goal is a professional look to their book designs, but immediately the problems of typography raise their head. In Word that is not so much of an issue because the typography controls in Word are … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Font Design, Fonts for sale, Hackberry Fonts, Sales, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, buddy, contenu, font, font design, font package, graphic design, OpenType, Self-publishing, Typography | 2 Replies

Typography does not start with font design

Skilled Workman Posted on January 5, 2013 by David BergslandJanuary 5, 2013

This is the first major confusion in typography. Many believe that typography is font choices. They spend a huge amount of time on which fonts to choose, how fonts developed historically, and the reader reactions to these fonts. This indeed is a good portion of typography, but this pursuit misses the entire point. The point of typography is to use words to communicate. Font choices can help—but this is really a small portion of what we need … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Book Design, font, font design, formatting, graphic design, page layout, Typography | 2 Replies

Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 is not bad

Skilled Workman Posted on November 12, 2012 by David BergslandNovember 12, 2012

As I often do, I found out this morning that I have been recommending false information. I’ve alway hated Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe’s free ebook reader. It trashed the type and the images. I always recommended deleting it and not allowing it on your computer. This morning I discover that the 2.0 version is a great improvement. Of course, it’s been out since Sept 2012 & I never noticed I’m surprised that I haven’t heard of it. Has … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, ePUB, Software Review | Tagged Adobe Digital Editions, Comparison of e-book readers, epub, font, Font embedding, IBook, IPad | 4 Replies

Using embedded fonts in ePUBs for free: DIY Publishing wins!

Skilled Workman Posted on October 23, 2012 by David BergslandOctober 23, 2012

I just tried something and was surprised by the result. After learning this morning that I don’t actually buy books from Kindle, but lease them, I wanted to see what my options are if I actually buy an ePUB. More than that, as a font designer, I wanted to try an ePUB with embedded fonts. So, I simply exported an ePUB with embedded font from my KF8 version of the book and emailed it to myself. Then … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, ePUB, Font Design, Kindle book design, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Amazon Kindle, DIY, embedded fonts, epub, font, Font embedding, iBooks, IPad, kindle, Kobo, nook, publishing, Self-publishing | 6 Replies

Bodoni: Modern typestyle, a revolutionary cold fish

Skilled Workman Posted on October 3, 2012 by David BergslandOctober 3, 2012

Revolutionary styles (to locate them by time) Modern: Bodoni Book These are type styles of the late 1700s and early 1800s, although their influence remains. To call them Modern, as most of the schools do, is silly. They are 200 years old. To call them Romantic (as Bringhurst does) is equally strange for they are cold fish. They are the natural expression of the radical, revolutionary intellectualism of the period. They are built with hard, tightly structured … Continue reading →

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Posted in Font Design, Typography | Tagged Bodoni, didot, elegant, font, font categories, font classifications, font design, modern typeface, Typeface | Leave a reply

Dutch Old Style: Janson

Skilled Workman Posted on September 19, 2012 by David BergslandSeptember 19, 2012

By the 1600s, French oppression had caused the center of typography to shift to Antwerp primarily through Plantin who was based there. This style commercialized the French designs that were so heavily promoted by Plantin. The Dutch influence made the French work more printable, taking out some of the subtleties of Garamond and Granjon. Their main influence was in England where there was no real typefounding industry until Caslon in the 1700s. These styles were a abandonment … Continue reading →

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Posted in Font Design, Readability, Typography | Tagged Antwerp, Caslon, England, font, Garamond, Granjon, Plantin, Star Chamber | Leave a reply

Geralde: Garamond, the classic serif font

Skilled Workman Posted on September 5, 2012 by David BergslandSeptember 5, 2012

Garalde: Garamond 3 This group is named in homage to Claude Garamond and Aldus Manutius. These original serif fonts are exemplified by the work of Claude Garamond in Paris in the early to mid-1500s. Robert Slimbach released a new interpretation of Claude Garamond’s and Robert Granjon’s styles called Adobe Garamond Pro—now ramped up to Premier after redoing the OpenType version. Garamond was the first major type designer. He was not a printer or calligrapher, he was a freelance punchcutter. Along with … Continue reading →

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Posted in Font Design, Typography | Tagged Aldus Manutius, Claude Garamond, font, font classifications, font design, Garamond, OpenType, Robert Slimbach, serif, Typography | 1 Reply

Aldine: the intellectuals begin their assault on font design

Skilled Workman Posted on August 29, 2012 by David BergslandAugust 29, 2012

Aldine: Bembo These fonts are also from Northern Italy. Bembo is a revival of the work of another printer, Aldus Manutius in the 1500s. Manutius was a major influence on type design as we know it. This continued the trend toward a more intellectual development of type away from its calligraphic roots. Aldine characteristics Narrower caps: But not by much Larger x-height: This tends to make these fonts look a bit more contemporary to our eyes. Ascenders … Continue reading →

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Font classifications: the lowest common denominators

Skilled Workman Posted on August 15, 2012 by David BergslandAugust 15, 2012

A practical list The four basic classifications of all type are: Of course, most of the so-called Decorative fonts are serif or sans. As you can see above, Abiquiu Fiesta is basically a sans serif. Miscellaneous would be a better term. We’ll start with the majority: serif typefaces. Way more than half of all font designs were serif fonts. This overwhelming majority has been diluted a bit by the outpouring of fancy and widely varied scripts in recent … Continue reading →

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Posted in Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Baskerville, font, font classifications, Garamond, List of typefaces, MyFonts, Sans-serif, serif, Typeface | 1 Reply

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