Page Layout - Canons of Page Construction, Book Design, Page Orientation, Grid, Page Layout, Page, Column, Double Truck (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Canons of Page Construction, Book Design, Page Orientation, Grid, Page Layout, Page, Column, Double Truck, Page Interchange Language, Signature Mark, Floating Block, Measure, Flatplan, Pagination, Page Header, Boxout, Pull Quote, Spread, Margin, Sidebar. Excerpt: This article is part of the series on: Book design item Body matter, which may include: item Back matter Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole. In the words of Jan Tschichold, book design " though largely forgotten today, methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve have been developed over centuries. To produce perfect books these rules have to be brought back to life and applied." Richard Hendel describes book design as "an arcane subject" and refers to the need for a context to understand what that means. Book structure Book design concerns itself with the elements listed in the Book design sidebar. Front matter Front matter, or preliminaries, is the first section of a book, and is usually the smallest section in terms of the number of pages. The pages are numbered in lowercase roman numerals. Each page is counted; but no folio or page number is expressed, or printed, on either display pages, or blank pages. Front matter generally only appears in the first volume in a series, although some elements (such as a table of contents or index) may appear in each volume. The following table will help distinguish between some of the different types of front matter: Name: Voice: Purpose item Contents: Publisher: This is a list of chapter headings, and nested subheadings, together with their respective page numbers. This includes all front-matter items listed below together with chapters in the body matt...