book design
Cover and typography
Book design is the art and practice of arranging a book's visual and physical elements—typography, layout, margins, paper, binding, and cover—into a coherent whole.
A book designer makes decisions about typeface, spacing, chapter openings, and how text sits on the page.
Good book design serves readability while establishing the book's character: The book design evoked 1920s modernism.
- dust jacketRemovable paper book cover
- kerningLetter-pair spacing adjustment
- leadingGuiding or pacing type
- colophonBook's production statement
- font stylesText appearance options
endpapers · color palette · frontispiece · title page · typography · perfect binding · pagination · chapter headings · typesetting · ligatures · white space · vellum · paper stock · embossing · layout · signature · decorative borders · drop caps
- graphic design historyBauhaus, Art Nouveau, modernism, postmodernism, constructivism
- graphic artssketch, illustration, print, typography, printmaking
- graphic designlogo, font, typography, layout, color
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- design artsapplied arts, decorative arts, craftsmanship, handicrafts, arts and crafts
- book artshandmade books, limited editions, hand-crafted books, pop-up books, flip books
book designwriting
Recorded language on surface
authorship · manuscript · prose · storytelling · copywriting