{"id":2312,"date":"2021-03-08T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T10:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurotrad.com\/blog\/types-layouts-books-classic-modular-free\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T11:25:16","slug":"types-layouts-books-classic-modular-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurotrad.com\/en\/magazine\/types-layouts-books-classic-modular-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How to choose the right layout for a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Designing the layout for a book<\/strong> is an extremely complex operation, as it must ensure satisfactory compliance with all the requirements of the text and, at the same time, make it possible to create an object that meets the buyer\u2019s expectations, also aesthetically speaking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Choosing the right layout<\/strong> is therefore essential for ensuring that a text is \u201ckitted out\u201d in a\u00a0 valid graphic outfit: making incorrect choices regarding the layout could have a significant negative effect on the sales of the book in question, or on its critical response.<\/p>\n<p>Below we list some tips about the essential points to consider when designing a book layout.<\/p>\n<h2>Edition, layout grid, structure, font: the main questions<\/h2>\n<p>When planning the <strong>publication of a book,<\/strong> one must first ask oneself a few questions. What target group does the book aim to reach? Is it to be a low-cost edition for widespread circulation? Or a valuable edition that mainly focuses on the quality of the graphic design and the materials used?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Layout grid <\/strong>is the name used to describe the blank space that surrounds the text on each page: if the objective is to try and use all the space offered by the paper, the layout grid will be composed of rather small spaces and the text will end a few millimetres from the outer margin of the page. On the other hand, if the spotlight is to fall on the text, a very large grid is a better option, i.e. with more blank space around the text.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>graphic structure<\/strong> of a book depends largely on the type of text to be designed. If it\u2019s an illustrated children\u2019s book, the illustrations will probably follow a rather free pattern and will be the main focus. The grid may even disappear, and blocks of text of various lengths may be inserted, in coherence with the illustrations, but differently from page to page.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, in the case of a <strong>graphic novel<\/strong>, a book on botany or a theoretical\u00a0architectural book, the quality and size of the images play a fundamental role and the ideal choice in these cases is therefore a large-sized book.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>choice of the font<\/strong>, i.e., the case used when writing the text, must be made carefully: a font suitable for printing books with a\u00a0 classic style, such as novels or poetry collections, will have serifs (i.e. small projections and thicknesses that make the character more elegant), while for children\u2019s publications, or those dealing with technical or very topical subjects, a cleaner, more modern and graphically attractive <em>sans serif<\/em> font (literally \u201cwithout serifs\u201d) is a better option, the latter being used often online.<\/p>\n<p>Many other conventions must also be respected when designing the <strong>title page<\/strong>, that of the contents and of all the other parts containing text that are not directly included in the actual \u201cbody of text\u201d of the book.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurotrad.com\/desktop-publishing\/\">designing page layouts for printing<\/a> is an extremely complex operation, which requires a great deal of know-how and expertise in the field of publishing. Obviously, if the text is written in characters other than those of the Latin alphabet, (such as in the case of Cyrillic or Japanese) it is important to consider the graphic and linguistic peculiarities of the alphabet in question, and tailor the layout design to suit these, often with very different end results from those we are used to seeing in the western world.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing the layout for a book is an extremely complex operation, as it must ensure satisfactory compliance with all the requirements of the text and, at the same time, make it possible to create an object that meets the buyer\u2019s expectations, also aesthetically speaking. Choosing the right layout is therefore essential for ensuring that a text is \u201ckitted out\u201d in a\u00a0 valid graphic outfit: making incorrect choices regarding the layout could have a significant negative effect on the sales of the book in question, or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Types of layouts for books: classic, modular, free | Eurotrad<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The right layout for each manuscript: find out the differences between the classic, modular and free layout and how to make the right choice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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