Work Book
Builders of a Nation
Inside
The typesetting
Thirty-seven lives in three parts. Each part opens on a night-violet floral spread; each woman’s chapter faces a quote framed in the lilac arch from the cover, so the book keeps the cover’s world all the way through.
- Trim size
- 123 × 186 mm
- Pages
- 208
- Text set in
- Baskerville, with KFGQPC Hafs for the Qurʾan
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
