The difference between average and professional typesetting is all in the details – and one such detail that is often overlooked is hyphenation. Proper hyphenation is essential to a comfortable reading experience and clear communication. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how to use hyphenation to enhance your text. Let’s get started. [...]
Happy New Year to all. After a short break, your local typesetters are back and ready to transform exceptional manuscripts into attractive, informative, and easy-to-read publications. I’d like to take this opportunity to reflect on a few things from 2018, share a New Year’s resolution or two, divulge a delicious family recipe passed down from [...]
If you’re looking to hire a typesetter to improve the look and readability of your publication, you’ve landed in the right place. Not all typesetters have the skills, services, or timeframe needed to ensure your text is a success. In this article, we’ll cover five critical considerations to make as you decide which typesetter to [...]
Unless you’ve written a book or worked in publishing or as a designer, you’ve probably never given typesetting a second thought. The thing is, proper typesetting is critical to an enjoyable and effortless reader experience – whether you’re publishing in print or digitally. What is typesetting? Typesetting refers to the design and arrangement text on [...]
I would like to welcome and introduce our newest team member, Wilson. A quick google search shows a vast amount of research on the positive impact pets have on our lives and the benefits they bring to the workplace. But until you experience having a puppy at work it is hard to imagine how [...]
March 20 is the ‘International Day of Happiness’, and until recently I didn’t know there was such a thing. In 2011, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that recognised happiness as a ‘fundamental human goal’ and called for ‘a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes the happiness and well-being of all peoples’. [...]
Like fashion, trends in the internal design and layout of books go through phases and some of the recent trends are not translating from print to ebook typesetting. One of the trends we are currently seeing for books, especially nonfiction business or self-help books is for them to be heavily styled. Using beautiful script fonts [...]
After months or even years writing and perfecting your manuscript, you feel ready to send it out to the wider world. You may have received great feedback from friends, family and writing colleagues but where to from here? Your first point of contact with the publishing world will be the manuscript submission process. Either to [...]
As we all know advancements in digital technology have changed the publishing industry forever. We constantly hear that print books are dead but does the current state of the Australian Book Market indicate otherwise? According to Think Australian 2016, published by Books+Published: ‘Books sales edged up in Australia for the second year in a row’. Sales [...]
Fonts and typefaces are one of those things we give little or no thought to in our everyday lives. They surround us daily, on street signs, billboards, movie posters, books, newspapers, sides of trucks and just about everything else we buy. Here is a brief history of typefaces. Typefaces are now over 560 years old [...]
