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Learn Typography and Book Design for Profitable Self-Publishing

Section 1: Welcome

Welcome (3:01)
Is Your manuscript ready?
More than font choice (3:18)

Section 2: The Big Decisions

A Guide to Trim Sizes
Applying Trim Sizes (1:48)
Adjusting Page Size for Bleed (4:23)
Determining Margins Using the Golden Rule Formula
Calculating & Applying Margins & Gutters (5:05)
Setting the Font Size (6:25)
Typographical Anatomy 1: Serif Fonts (6:36)
Choosing Body Text Font (6:12)
Typographical Anatomy 2: Sans-Serif Fonts (6:31)
Choosing Heaeding Fonts (6:14)
Typographical Anatomy 3: Display & Script Fonts (4:31)
Choosing Title Fonts (5:46)

Section 3: getting Technical

Structure & White Space (2:07)
Paragraph Anatomy (3:14)
Formatting Paragraph Styles (4:32)
Book Anatomy: Front & Back Matter (2:41)
Inserting & Formatting Front & Back Matter (3:38)
Running Headers & Folios
Inserting Folios (6:56)
Inserting Running Headers (5:05)

Section 4: Fine Tuning

Margins Revisited (4:39)
Chapter Pages (5:23)
Runts, Rivers & Laders (11:02)
Widows, Orphans & Feet (7:01)
Final Housekeeping & Table of Contents (3:18)

Section 5: Exporting to PDF

PDF Checklist
Exporting to PDF (3:40)

Section 6: Q & A

Q & A

Section 7: Conclusion

Resources

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A Guide to Trim Sizes

Industry-Standard-Book Sizes.pdf

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