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8.5"×11" or A4 paper size. Courier or a similar monospaced serif font. 12-point (10 pitch) or 10-point (12 pitch) font size. Double-spaced lines of text (set in a word processor as 24-point or 20-point line spacing according to the chosen font size). 24 or 25 lines of text. 1, 1.25 or 1.5 inch margins. Paragraph indentation of 0.5 inches.
As pages became more standardized, so did the size and shape of margins. [20] In general, margins in books have grown smaller over time. The wide margins common during the Renaissance have given way to much narrower proportions. [21] However, there is still much variation depending on the size and purpose of the book. [22] [23]
justified—text is aligned along the left margin, with letter-spacing and word-spacing adjusted so that the text falls flush with both margins, also known as fully justified or full justification; centered—text is aligned to neither the left nor right margin; there is an even gap on each side of each line.
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
Nowadays, most newspapers and magazines have converted to a "modular" system that simplifies ad size and eliminates the need to figure out column inches. In a modular system ad sizes are represented by the amount of the total page the ad takes up. For example, 1/2 page, 1/4 page, 1/8 page, etc.
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Penguin Books was founded by Allen Lane in 1935. [2] The basic look of Penguin was established before Lane brought Tschichold to Penguin in the late 1940s as head of typography and production.
The size and proportions of a book depend on the size of the original full sheet. If a sheet 480 by 640 mm (19 by 25 in) is used to print a quarto, the resulting untrimmed pages, will be approximately half as large in each dimension: width 240 mm ( 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and height 320 mm ( 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).