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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.
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.
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]
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).
Additionally, flush-right alignment is used to set off special text in English, such as attributions to authors of quotes printed in books and magazines, or text associated with an image to its right. Flush right is often used when formatting tables of data. It is used to align text to the right margin; in this case, the left ends will be unequal.
The use of floating blocks to present pictures and tables is a typical feature of academic writing and technical writing, including scientific articles and books. Floating blocks are normally labeled with a caption or title that describes its contents and a number that is used to refer to the figure from the main text.
It usually appears in modern books on the verso of the title page, but in some books is placed at the end (see Back matter). Dedication: Author: A dedication page is a page in a book that precedes the text, in which the author names the person or people for whom he/she has written the book. Epigraph: Author: A phrase, quotation, or poem.
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. Tschichold was in England at Penguin between 1947 and 1949 before returning to Switzerland.