The Blog
What’s to Become of My Typeface Library?
So I just found out that Type 1 fonts will no longer be supported by Adobe as of January, 2023. That’s less than two years before a large part of my rather extensive collection of fonts won’t be usable in my InDesign work. Type 1 fonts was the font format in use for...
The Kick to Children’s Books— May 18th, 2007
The page design and layout of an illustrated children’s book is as interesting as freelance book design and page composition projects get. Completely beside the strong emotion you feel from showing such a finished book to, say, your grandchildren, there is the...
Page Sighs— May 14th, 2007
When I work on a book’s design, the first think I think about is the page size. Many times these thoughts reach a rather quick end, as the client has already decided that for me, usually long before I begin. This kind of thing often happens when a publisher wants to...
Work to Live, Live to Work—Oh, Who Cares?!— May 10th, 2007
There are times in this life when something you are doing blissfully runs headlong into non-something you are doing. For me, it just as easily happens that I am in the middle of good times—my wife and I seeing good friends; enjoying good wine, fine food, and great...
Fonts and Fonts— May 6th, 2007
For certain people, possessing a collection of fonts is a real kick. I am not embarrassed to admit that I fall into that category. I realized this when, after getting my first Macintosh computer, along with a LaserWriter NT and the accompanying resident...
Growing Up, I Heard of Mugs Who Were Arrested for Bookmaking—April 29, 2007
I make books. Or at least the electronic pages that distill into files that go to commercial printers, where large sheets are printed and cut into individual pages. These printed pages then make their way into bound books. If you send me a manuscript and textfiles, I...
The Best Laid Plans … Here Come Some Old Posts
As I said in my first post on this new blog, which is a revival of my old blog on book design and freelancing, I'd be reposting my old blog's posts here because they're worthwhile reading for new freelancers, new book designers, and folks in need of a book designer. I...
I’M BAAACK!
As I said on the posting I made on LinkedIn, my business page on Facebook, and to the EFA maillist: I finally have a website again. The site’s URL is https://stephentianobookdesign.com. Now, too, obviously, my blog is back. And that posting I referred to above is more...