Book title page design

Mark’s book shelves on Instagram: “Title page from ‘Evening’ by Kate Northrop, with a line drawing by Karlin Northrop. Designed by Michael Peich in Spectrum and printed by…”

Mark’s book shelves on Instagram: “Title page from ’The Shepherd’s Calendar’ by John Clare, illustrated with tipped-in wood engravings by John Lawrence. Designed and printed…”

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Tides of War by Stella Tillyard. Title page layout, text hierarchy within the title of the book puts emphasis on the nouns within it by using all caps and a serif typeface and the 'of' in a italisized script typeface. Is centred with wide margins on either side and even space between top of page to the authors name while also having a subtitle that is subtle

title pages appear to be all about the effective use of white space. i mean, according to our textbook, all effective design does, but in researching books' page layouts, i find it especially obvious here. in each of these examples, the publisher's information is placed toward the bottom, in much smaller sizes than the title and author's name. in all of these examples, the title appears to be the most prominent (although you might argue in example 4 that the author's name is most prominent…