Tag Archive: typesetting

And I Thought The Kerning Game Was Good!

Ladies, gentlemen and Nicola Morgan, following the success of the Kerning Game I now bring you… Shape Type! I find it far more interesting to create extraordinary new typefaces (ha!) and so instead of getting very high scores on this game, I’m getting quite extraordinarily low ones. I am obviously a trend-setter.  Or incompetent. Or…

Guest Post: How Book Design Affects Readability

A couple of weeks ago I was talking on the phone with Maggie Dana (who comments here regularly as Mags), and she mentioned to me that as well as being a writer, she works as a book designer and typesetter. We talked about how good typesetting not only makes books so much more readable, but…