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An outline of book design

Douglas Martin

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The responsibilities of design interaction with other disciplines text pages selecting a format, how reading works, typographic measurement, margin schemes choice of typefaces display faces use of italic, small caps and bold use of rules decorations and ornaments planning a book casting-off and controlling extent grids scissors and paste and screen make-up prelim pages part and chapter titles running heads text complexities languages, marginal notes, extracts, verse, plays, listings, tables endmatter materials working with illustrators.

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The responsibilities of design interaction with other disciplines text pages selecting a format, how reading works, typographic measurement, margin schemes choice of typefaces display faces use of italic, small caps and bold use of rules decorations and ornaments planning a book casting-off and controlling extent grids scissors and paste and screen make-up prelim pages part and chapter titles running heads text complexities languages, marginal notes, extracts, verse, plays, listings, tables endmatter materials working with illustrators.

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The responsibilities of design interaction with other disciplines text pages selecting a format, how reading works, typographic measurement, margin schemes choice of typefaces display faces use of italic, small caps and bold use of rules decorations and ornaments planning a book casting-off and controlling extent grids scissors and paste and screen make-up prelim pages part and chapter titles running heads text complexities languages, marginal notes, extracts, verse, plays, listings, tables endmatter materials working with illustrators.

Key concepts: Typeface, Font, Typography, Computer science, Reading (process), Computer graphics (images), Ornaments, Engineering drawing

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