Work Book
Rabbana
Inside
The typesetting
Forty duʿāʾ, each opening on a dark green page framed in a fine border: the Arabic, the transliteration and the meaning, then the chapter. Short reflections break out onto full-colour pages.
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 image
One picture that carries the book’s idea.
- 7 The title
Lettering that still reads at thumbnail size in an online shop.
- 8 The subtitle
Smaller and quieter, so the title leads.
In hand
The finished book
