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Inside
The typesetting
A pocket book of daily duʿāʾ, from waking to sleeping. At this size the Arabic, the transliteration and the meaning each need room, so each duʿāʾ is kept together on its page.
- Trim size
- 90 × 120 mm
- Pages
- 102
- Text set in
- Athelas, 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 image
One picture that carries the book’s idea.
- 6 The title
Lettering that still reads at thumbnail size in an online shop.
- 7 The subtitle
Smaller and quieter, so the title leads.
- 8 The author’s name
Set to sit with the title, not compete with it.
In hand
The finished book
