Typographer Training
Gain mastery in professional typography for 5x8 inch book titles. The course covers typeface selection, grid design, stylesheet creation, mapping to EPUB and PDF formats, and quality assurance techniques. Ensure every element—body text, quotes, images, footnotes, and more—appears beautifully and consistently in both print and digital editions, delivering polished results across platforms.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This practical course teaches you to create a professional typesetting system for 5x8 inch books, covering body text specifications, heading structures, grids, captions, notes, and running heads. You'll adapt open-source fonts, prepare them for EPUB and PDF, document choices, produce sample layouts, and develop a reusable style sheet for ongoing projects.
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Develop skills
- Master book page typography by quickly setting professional 5x8 grids, headings, and body text.
- Develop advanced typesetting skills to manage hyphenation, widows, folios, and notes with precision.
- Learn typeface refinement: audit, adjust, and export open-source fonts optimised for publishing.
- Achieve cross-format styling by seamlessly mapping print specifications to EPUB and PDF CSS.
- Produce professional proofs: efficiently build, test, and quality-assure sample pages on various devices.
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