Book Design
Why Clothbound Margins Shape How We Read
Notes on rag paper, generous outer margins, and why digital author pages ought to respect the calm proportions of print.
Open a well-set novel from a small press and notice how much of the page is intentionally left unprinted. Those wide outer margins were never wasted paper; they were thumb rests, thinking room, and acoustic insulation around the prose.
Bringing Print Proportions to the Screen
When a reader visits an author’s website, they are looking for the same unhurried atmosphere they found inside the book jacket: sixty-character line measures, warm off-white stock, and clear paths to sample a chapter.