Had a tutorial with Joe today, and after seeing his work - more specifially the brief he had to produce a book using traditional book design, I thought I'd ask him for a few pointers. He gave me a few research sources and helped me to rethink some of the layout issues I was having just in terms of if things needed to be there or not. Joe also suggested that I establish some rules that all my pages can comform to, to give my overall layout the uniformity it needs.
I've changed the layout of the headers so that the title is only on the left page and the chapter number is only on the right, with the icon removed completely to help clarify and declutter the page. Here is the new layout spec for the type:
- Large headings are 30pt, Baskerville Oldface Cyrillic, inclined with a 28pt leading (when applicable)
- Body copy is all 8pt, sub headings are in italics, headings in bold and in small caps, with copy in baskerville upright.
- All paragraphs have been justified and indents have been done manually. All paragraphs are also dehyphenated.
- All layout conforms to a 4 column equilateral.
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