Work Book
A Year with Aʾishah
Inside
The typesetting
One narration for every day of the year: a numbered ornament, the hadith in fully vowelled Arabic, then the translation, a short comment and the reference, each in its own style so 365 pages read the same way.
- Trim size
- 120 × 190 mm
- Pages
- 383
- Text set in
- Adobe Caslon, 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 author’s name
Set to sit with the title, not compete with it.
- 6 The title
Lettering that still reads at thumbnail size in an online shop.
- 7 The image
One picture that carries the book’s idea.
In hand
The finished book
