[Sca-cooks] Spiral Bound or Perfect? One Book or Two
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Wed Oct 27 15:38:08 PDT 2010
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?
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David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com
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