
The Art and Business of Online Writing
Client: Nicolas Cole
Task: Create an engaging interior for a how-to book featuring headers, pull quotes, bullet lists, multi-tiered numbered lists, and selective bolded text throughout.
Length: 336 pages
As with all interiors that I complete, you can see here that I’ve incorporated the cover fonts throughout the interior for a fully integrated look.

Cole’s pages had several elements on each spread: bold headers, body copy, chapter numbers, chapter titles, and pull quotes. All of these elements were pre-approved by Cole during the ‘font test phase’ before I laid out his entire manuscript.

It was important to Cole that the layout provide the reader with a pleasing and visually clear reading experience. His writing in this book is punchy and I made sure to employ white space effectively to let the reader pause and take-in each sentence.

Here’s something to consider: Do you want a new chapter to occur on the next available page, or should they always start on the right-hand (“recto”) page?
There is no strict rule about where chapter openers start; the decision is a purely aesthetic one. With this book, Cole chose to allow the chapter openers to appear on any page, with chapter 11 appearing on a left-hand (“verso”) page.


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