[Sca-cooks] Spiral Bound or Perfect? One Book or Two

[Terry Decker]

I would suggest 11 point type and Franklin Gothic Book or Lucida Sans Serif 
as good type faces.  Using 9 point for the ingredient lists, if it improves 
formatting and reader comprehension.

Bear

> Another question--font size.
>
> Past editions of the _Miscellany_ were 12 point Times. I'm currently 
> working with 11 point times. Looking at our _Joy of Cooking_, it's pretty 
> clearly smaller than that. Would people be uncomfortable with text at 10 
> point or 9 point? Text at 10 or 11, ingredients lists at 9 or 10? Would 
> they prefer the smaller font sizes, because of getting more on each page? 
> Smaller fonts don't reduce the price by much, given the cost structure, 
> but they do make layout easier for lists of ingredients.
>
> A related issue is page size. It turns out that the cost of the book 
> depends on the number of pages but not, surprisingly, on the page 
> size--which is an argument for using the largest page size (8x10) and 
> double columning instead of something like 6x9 and single columning. Do 
> people find a large book less convenient to hold and work with? More 
> convenient?
> -- 
> David/Cariadoc