In my short posting about type face, I should have stressed I was talking about that only: type size and space -- because Michael's focus was on novels where the type should be "transparent". Other books -- textbooks, children's books, much non-fiction -- the book-design can make or break them. Often, every single page is designed to fit the text and illustrations at that point. In childrfens books the illustrations are frequently more important to the appeal of the book than the text is, and each two-page spread must take into account what was on preceding spread. There have been whole books written about book-design.
In a message dated 10/3/10 11:55:07 PM, [email protected] writes: > Yes, the whole design of the book is very important. > wc > > --- On Sun, 10/3/10, Michael Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> > > Subject: Typography and literature > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010, 10:20 PM > > Cheerskep and other writers: > > > > Is the typographic design of your book important to you? > > Does it have any > > connection to whatever you created in the text? > > > > I am thinking of novels or other literary works that are > > meant to be read by > > the audience, not a printed script to be learned by actors, > > who then present a > > dramatic performance.
