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Aperture Books – Hardcover Title Font
Just wanted to share a tidbit regarding Aperture hardcover book titles that another reader and I worked on via email last week. I took a couple of guesses about the strange and opaque process that happens after clicking “buy book” and my new online buddy Florian came up with a work-around for his issue that I thought was really cool.
First a little background. Florian was making a really great looking book with a combination of street images and architecture from a few European cities that he recently traveled to. His end goal was to obtain an Apple produced hardcover book in his hands. No big deal right? Well sort of, first off he put a ton of time into it and it shows. Maybe he will be gracious enough to share an online version with the rest of the readers. Anyway the theme that he selected, like most themes, had a very large title font for the front cover. The title of the book is “Paris| Barcelona | Lisbon”. Florian’s concern was that the PDF he was examining had an extra bit in it that was to be printed on the book spine and it “looked” far far too big. His problem was that there was no obvious way to control the size of the title text on the spine.
My guess was that the cover title font also controlled the font for the title on the spine. I was right. Hooray score one for the home team. Ooops not so fast now the issue was the title on the actual front cover looked too small. Hey I told you Florian’s book looks fantastic, that’s because he sweats the details like this. Florian’s work-around for this is absolutely brilliant. Change the official title supplied in the book theme to optimize for the spine of the book. Drag the whole front title text box off of the front cover to a non-printing area. Add a new text box with whatever font size you want to the front cover. Now you have complete control over the font for both the spine title and the front cover title.
I have another guess. The other guess is that if the spine title is too big it is probably handled gracefully at printing time but regardless Florian did not want to take the chance and probably ended up with a more perfectly designed book in the end.
RB
Ps. Today’s image is a piece of the front cover from Florian’s book. It looks even better at full size without all the web compression. Florian’s website is here, you may want to check it out. He has some really nice stuff. He also has a blog using a photoblog service that I was not familiar with, it looks pretty cool for those looking for a nice looking site with a lot of image oriented features and navigation.
Hey Robert!
Thank you so much for your help with all this and your kind words! Really appreciate it.
I would really like to keep this up!
And certainly when there is a chance for me to come to the US or maybe you will visit Dubai we should meet up!
Let me know if maybe one day you have an issue I could help you with!
Keep in touch!
Hey Florian,
Thanks for stopping in – let me know when you are in the US we’ll do dinner. I will be keeping in touch.
RB
Hey you two,
On a similar subject -
I assembled a second edition hardcover book and found that the title that magically appears on the spine also is engraved on the board front cover- under the dustcover. The setting of the words and letters in the title are automatically deployed and are not correct, thus not making sense and looking amateurish.
I was not successful in finding a solution to the problem. It does show up in the PDF preview as large black font on white background in a small pane following the dustcover, but it is not available to edit.
Will appreciate any suggestions, as I do your advice.
Keith
In follow up, was able to work around successfully by enlarging title text box to split title into 2 lines and it then correctly printed in all three locations, dustcover front and spine, and embossing on board.
Thanks, Keith
Keith,
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I love when people give back to the community. If you have a moment I would love for you to explain this a bit more clearly. If you wish send and email and I will flesh out and publish the details with whatever credits you would like.
RB
Hey you two!
Sorry for the late follow up on this, but Keith you essentially faced the same problem as I did. The black and white font directly under the dustcover in the pdf is derived from the title in the theme you choose, as is the spine text.
If you change the theme title font size, it will affect the hardcover print on the board and spine in a certain way.
The workaround explained by Robert above is working here too. Just move the original title out to a non printable area and simply adjust the font size so that it looks correct on the spine, and on the hardcover board embossing e.g. the small black/white part in the pdf.
Then add a new text box and use whatever font design you want for your dust cover title page.