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The inside spreads are almost all just images of sketchbook pages, with none or very little writing. The image on the front is embossed, and the text and logo on the front and spine are done with a spot UV finish. The back is very plain, perhaps also an attempt to mimic a sketchbook. This is an art book with a design I really like – Sketchbooks by Grayson Perry, which was published by Penguin Random House last month and designed by Tom Etherington. The cover is smooth and matte finished, but has the appearance of being an old battered sketchbook with scuff marks on the front and spine. I’ll be doubling up on cover analyses for the next few weeks now as there are more genres to cover than weeks in the term. I actually really enjoyed typesetting this: I’m a bit undecided about whether I want to go into editorial or production and typesetting and proofreading is quite a nice in-between of the two I think – still working with the words and their meaning but also focused on how it looks and works on the page. I had a bit of an issue with making it look right to start with but it turns out I’d set the page size to A4 rather than 198 x 129mm which explained it.
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We also went through some typesetting conventions and good practices, like keeping line length to a maximum of 12/13 words for ease of reading, when to hyphenate words across lines (bit of a pet peeve of mine for some reason, I don’t like the words being split) and whether or not to justify text.īecky provided us with an excerpt of Jane Eyre to practice with, and for a first go I think mine looks okay, although looking at it now I could probably knock the word happy at the end of the first paragraph down a line: Becky gave us a surprise proofreading test this morning, but it wasn’t as bad as it sounds as it was an excerpt from a Sherlock Holmes story.