project 5

styled pages - short stories

The purpose of this project is to synthesize the typographic skills you developed in projects 3 and 4 to typeset a group of pages, using style sheets for consistency and paying attention to issues such as type size, line length, leading, hyphenation, justification, space above and below paragraphs and headings, and alignment to a baseline grid.

line length and leading studies

Please select a font and then create a test document in which you set 2.5 lowercase alphabets in different font sizes to see which size works best and what a comfortable line length is.

Also include a leading study in which you set a few lines of type, justified with hyphens allowed, and experiment with different amounts of leading.

Save this study document as lastname-5a.

document layout

You can build your book page "from the inside out." Once you have a line length and leading, you can make a decision about the number of lines you want on you page, then plan what the inside, top, outside, and bottom margins should be. This will give you all the information you need to know the final trim size of your document.

Use the automatic text box feature so that pages will be added to your document as needed when you import your text. You can do this by checking the Automatic Text Box checkbox when you first create the document. If you forget, you can also make a text box on a master page and link the broken chain symbol in the upper left corner to it.

You can use the Kafka stories or Aesop's fables that I have prepared as text files on the type server. Or you can use other material of your own choosing. If you do so, please create a text file that contains the source material and prepare it carefully so it is ready to import.

As part of your design, please use what you have learned from previous projects. I hope to see these things:

• master page elements, such as page numbers and running heads
• baseline grid established to match your leading
• first baseline offset feature of master page text boxes
• at least 3 paragraph style sheets applied consistently
• styles should include settings for font, font size, leading, H&J
• styles might also include settings for indents, drop caps, and space before or space after, if appropriate

We will examine how "space before" and "space after" interact with each other. The goal is to find a way so there is adequate vertical space between elements but also so that paragraphs of your story text always align to the baseline grid.

Save your book design, which should be at least six pages, as lastname-5b.

readings

Bringhurst. Elements of Typographic Style.
  Chapter 8: Shaping the Page (pp. 143-160)

Dowding, Geoffrey. Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type.
  Part I: The Setting of Text Matter (pp. 1-18)