[Sca-cooks] Spiral Bound or Perfect? One Book or Two
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Wed Oct 27 18:54:53 PDT 2010
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
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