Book Binding Basics: Book Layout and Edition Heart Composition

1. Book layout and components

The book layout is the carrying page of the content of the book; the specifications and composition of the layout of the book are relevant to the format of the book and the content of the book.

(1) Book layout definition

The layout of the book, ie the page of the book page, the area of ​​the book, ie the area of ​​the book (print book), and the specifications of the area of ​​the book are the same as the specifications of the book.

Such as: 16 open books, layout specifications for 185 × 260.

32 books with layout specifications of 130×185.

(2) Composition of Book Layout

Edition heart

It is the part of the book layout that bears the content of the book; it is one of the constituent elements of the layout; it is the main body of the layout content. When people read books, they always see double-sided. This is exactly the similarities between book design and single-sided advertisements and posters. This is also a problem that should be noticed in book design.

Zhou Kong

It is an empty space around the heart of the regular edition of the book; it is an indispensable element of the book layout. White edges help to read, avoid layout disturbances, help stabilize the line of sight, and help turn pages.

The name of Zhou Kong: Shang Baibian - Tiantou; Xiabaibian - footer;

About the white edge - set mouth, incision.

If Zhoukong is too big, the layout is reduced and the volume of words is small, which means that it is not economical and it is also too flashy. If Zhoukong is too small, it will cause readers to feel cramped and embarrassed when reading, which is detrimental to the appearance of the layout and is easy to print and bound. An accident occurred; so the size of the week is very important in book design.

2, book version of the heart and font size

The edition is also known as the “port”, which is the part of the rules that accommodates text charts on the pages of the book.

(1) Edition heart area and position

The edition of the heart area is the edition of the heart, which is expressed in terms of the width of the printing plate and the height of the printing plate. If the text or chart exceeds the edition of the heart, it will be called "super heart."

Heart width

1 The length of the line of sight affecting eyesight

The length of a small fifth character exceeds 90mm. The length of the fifth character is more than 110mm.

2 The current length of the book line

The size of the length of 32 large books is: the fifth character, 27 to 29 characters/line, about 100 to 108 mm.

32 The length of the book book line: the fifth character, 25 to 27 characters/line, about 92 to 100 mm. Small 5, 29 to 31 characters/line, approximately 92 to 98 mm.

16 The length of the book book line: No. 5 words, 38 to 40 words/line, about 146 to 150 mm. Small No. 5, 48 to 50 characters/line, about 150 to 156 mm.

The length of the 16-character line has obviously exceeded the range of moderate vision. Therefore, in addition to individual books even use the fifth row single row, most of them use double row.

The position of the layout in the layout

1 straight typeset version of the heart position: lower right or center.

Reasons: Tiantou (upper white edge) is relatively stretched and can be annotated; when double-sided, the white border is relatively small.

2 horizontal layout type heart position: upper left or center.

Reason: The edition of the heart does not count the page number, such as the upper and lower center of the edition, the heart of the vision version falls.

The white side of the theoretical book can be large enough to allow the reader to write and comment on the blank space. Scientific and technical books have a small number of publications, few readers, and costs. The white edge should be kept small. Pocketbooks, dictionaries, informational brochures, and cheap books also make use of paper as much as possible. The white margin should also be kept small, at least 10 mm in width. Hardcover and commemorative collections use a wider white border, which also enhances the preciousness and style of the book. Judging from the harmony of the layout, the width of the layout is also the width of the layout of the layout, the white side to be correspondingly wider, on the contrary, close to the narrower. In addition, thick books should pay attention to the weakening effect caused by the white side due to the arc shape, and should be widened accordingly, not to make the heart of the plate indented into the ridge of the mouth, at least not having to use your hands to see the innermost part. Text.

(2) font size and its unit conversion

Font size

The size of the word. There are three types of printing words commonly used in book publications: lead characters, manual phototypes, and laser phototypes. The first two are rarely used at present, but they are mostly laser-typed.

1 number of lead characters, beginning number, number one, number two, number two, number three, number four, number four, number five, number five, number six, number seven, six points in points (points Or standard) as a unit.

2Manual phototypes 7 to 100 series are based on level (k).

Conversion between 3 levels and points

Level 1 (k) = 0.25 mm 1 point (p) = 0.35mm
Level 1 (k) = 0.714 points (p) 1 point (p) = 1.4 levels (k)

4 Laser phototypesetting

The size of the word is unlimited and can be arbitrarily scaled. And can produce a variety of forms of deformation characters, can do flattening, left and right tilt, yin and yang three-dimensional, hook edge, rotation, hollow net pattern characters.

The font is the shape of the word

The book publication current fonts are:

1 basic font Song type, imitation Song, black body, body and so on.

2 basic font changes

For example, the "book Songs", "Paper Songs", "Standard Songs", "Three Songs of Songs", "Beauty", and "Xiao Yao's Body" in the typesetting are all variations of the old song style; The "round body" and "big black body" are variants of the black body. Mostly used for text, headings, etc.

3 The art body maps, as in the typesetting, are the artistic fonts, such as “walking chanting”, “operating script”, “weibei monument”, “amber”, “variety”, “water column” and “color cloud”. Mostly used for publication titles and so on.

3, version of the heart of the calculation

The calculation of the version of the core specifications, that is, the calculation of the version of the core capacity (the number of words accommodated on the layout), can be calculated based on the established version of the book after the text in the body of the book is determined.

(1) Length calculation is the calculation of the length of a line of text on a book page. In general, the line length is equal to the plate width.

1 lead line length calculation

Lead line length = number of words × (points per word × mm per point)
Such as: a book, with the fifth word, 25 characters per row.
Line length = 25 words × (10.5 points × 0.35mm points) = 25 characters × 3.675mm = 91.875mm

2 Calculation of manual photo line length

Line length = number of characters × (number of characters per word × mm per stage)
Such as: a book, with 15k words, each row of 27 words.
Line length=27 words×(about fifth 15k×0.25mm/k)=27 words×3.75mm=101.25mm

3 Calculation of the length of the laser photo line (calculation of the lead line length)

(2) line spacing calculation

That is, the calculation of the distance between two lines of text. Determination of line spacing: generally 1/2, 3/4, 1 of the positive text. For example, a certain line spacing is 1/2 of the fifth character, ie, 5.25 points; 3/4 is 7.875 points; and 1 is 10.5 points. Or, it is 1/2 larger than the size of the word in the text. For example, for a book, the body text uses the word No. 5, and its line spacing is 1/2 of the small fourth character (12 points) (opposite), that is, 6 points (pounds).

(3) version of the core specifications

Edition Heart Size = Heart Width × Heart Height

Heart height = (word height x number of lines) + (line height x number of line spacing)

Where: word height = per-word point level * mm per point level

Row height = each line from the point level × millimeters per point level

Row spacing = total number of rows - 1