Design
5 posts on design, newest first.
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Design Drop Caps and Small Caps: How a Chapter Opens in a Printed Novel The ways a novel's chapter can open: no indent, a drop cap, the first words in small capitals, and the conventions that make each one look right. -
Design Writing Software for Novelists Who Don't Write in English How to write and typeset a book in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, Hindi, Bengali, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Greek or Vietnamese, which typeface each script gets, and what still needs building. -
Design The Best Fonts for a Novel Interior, and the Licence You Need Which typefaces novels are actually set in, the free open-licensed revivals of them, and why a font you own on your computer may not be licensed for your book. -
Design Justified or Ragged Right for a Novel? Whether to justify the text of a printed novel, why justified text needs hyphenation, and when a ragged right edge is the better choice. -
Design The Typography Rules That Make a Book Look Professionally Made Widows, orphans, rivers, hyphenation and the other small typesetting rules readers never notice but always feel, and why a Word export breaks most of them.