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Edward Johnston (1906) on planning a manuscript book page: margins, proportions and line length
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Summarises what Chapter VI of Johnston's 1906 handbook says about planning a book page, from page shape to margins to line length to ruling. It helps book designers and hand-letterers compare historical proportions. It is a documentary note on one chapter; the comic and picture-book checklist is untested inference.
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Edward Johnston (1906) on planning a manuscript book page: margins, proportions and line length
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Summarises what Chapter VI of Johnston's 1906 handbook says about planning a book page, from page shape to margins to line length to ruling. It helps book designers and hand-letterers compare historical proportions. It is a documentary note on one chapter; the comic and picture-book checklist is untested inference.
Useful starting points
- Johnston himself calls the exact margin proportion largely a matter of taste, so treat his ratios as a starting point to adjust by eye.
- The chapter says lines of two or three words are tiresome and an ordinary book wants roughly four to eight words to the line.
- Any leftover space after counting text lines can go to the foot margin, per the chapter.
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