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title: "Design — the Galley blog"
description: "Every post on design: Writing Software for Novelists Who Don't Write in English; The Typography Rules That Make a Book Look Professionally Made."
source: https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/design
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[Blog](https://usegalley.com/blog) · Design

# Design

2 posts on design, newest first.

[All posts](https://usegalley.com/blog) [Galley](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/galley)[Publishing](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/publishing)[Craft](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/craft)[Formatting](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/formatting)[Guides](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/guides)

![A translation glyph over a dark field, with the Galley wordmark](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/write-a-novel-in-your-language.png) 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.

September 2, 2026

https://usegalley.com/blog/write-a-novel-in-your-language

![A well-set book page next to a poorly-spaced one, side by side](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/book-typography-basics.png) Design

## The Typography Rules That Make a Book Look Professionally Made

Widows, orphans, rivers, hyphenation, and the small typesetting conventions readers never notice but always feel, and why they separate a real book from a Word export.

May 5, 2026

https://usegalley.com/blog/book-typography-basics