Why You Need a Book Designer/ Layout Artist
Add comment July 2nd, 2012
In no particular order …
- To make sure you use proper ellipses … with space around them
- To guard against widows and orphans (If you don’t know, please look it up before you self publish your first book.)
- To see to it that only a single wordspace follows the end of a sentence
- To prevent stacks of more than two hyphens or the same word at the end of a line
- To give a page of type proper leading and margins, so the white space makes reading comfortable, and the wordspacing is never wide enough to drive a truck through
- To choose typefaces that somehow “go with” the text
- To prevent the running of leader dots from the end of chapter titles to page numbers in Tables of Contents
- To make sure the book looks typeset—no extra lines of white space—rather than typewritten
And these are just a few of the things I’ll do to make sure your book doesn’t look like an amateur hour production.