Typographer Training
Gain expertise in professional typography for 5x8 inch book titles. The course covers selecting typefaces, designing grids, crafting stylesheets, adapting for EPUB and PDF, and quality assurance. Ensure every element—body text, quotes, images, footnotes—appears beautifully and uniformly in both print and digital formats, making your books stand out consistently across platforms.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This practical course teaches you to create a full professional typesetting system for 5x8 inch books. You will master body text specifications, heading structures, grids, captions, footnotes, and running headers. Additionally, adapt free open-source fonts, ready them for EPUB and PDF formats, record your choices, produce refined sample pages, and develop a reusable stylesheet for upcoming books.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Book page typography: quickly set professional 5x8 grids, headings, and body text.
- Advanced typesetting: manage hyphenation, widows, folios, and notes with precision.
- Typeface refinement: evaluate, adjust, and export open-source fonts ready for publishing.
- Cross-format styling: seamlessly convert print specifications to EPUB and PDF CSS.
- Professional proofs: efficiently build, test, and quality-check sample pages on various devices.
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Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workloadWhat our students say
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