Work Book
25 Keys to a Happy Life
Inside
The typesetting
Each of the 25 keys opens with its own key drawing from the cover, the hadith in capitals and the verse in Arabic with transliteration and translation, then a short, easy chapter.
- Trim size
- 113 × 179 mm
- Pages
- 75
- Text set in
- Minion, with KFGQPC Uthman Taha Naskh for the Arabic
Anatomy of a cover
Everything a cover has to do.
Choose a number to see that part.
- 1 The blurb
The back-cover copy, set to read in ten seconds.
- 2 The author
A short biography, with a photograph where there is one.
- 3 Barcode and publisher
ISBN barcode, price and the publisher’s marks, placed to the printer’s rules.
- 4 The spine
Title and author sized to the spine width, worked out from the page count and the paper.
- 5 The title
Lettering that still reads at thumbnail size in an online shop.
- 6 The image
One picture that carries the book’s idea.
- 7 The author’s name
Set to sit with the title, not compete with it.
In hand
The finished book
