Work Book
The Muslim (M)other
Inside
The typesetting
Essays in four parts. The part openers borrow the cover’s heavy sans-serif and lots of white space, and the essays are set as a calm, generous reading page.
- Trim size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Pages
- 306
- Text set in
- Adobe Caslon, with Helvetica Bold for the part titles
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 subtitle
Smaller and quieter, so the title leads.