Typographer Training
Gain mastery in professional typography for 5x8 inch books through this hands-on course. Explore typeface selection, grid systems, stylesheet creation, adaptation for EPUB and PDF formats, and thorough quality assurance to ensure every element—body text, headings, quotes, images, captions, and notes—appears beautifully consistent in both print and digital editions across various devices.

from 4 to 360h 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, footnotes, and running headers. You will adapt open-source fonts, prepare them for EPUB and PDF formats, document your choices, produce refined sample layouts, and develop a reusable stylesheet for ongoing book projects.
Elevify advantages
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 to refine typefaces by auditing, adjusting, and exporting open-source fonts ready for publishing.
- Achieve cross-format styling by seamlessly converting print specifications to EPUB and PDF CSS.
- Produce professional proofs by building, testing, and quality-checking sample pages across multiple devices.
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