Cover and interior design, including foil-stamped jacket and binding, soft cover edition, and ebook.
Font selection and treatment was particularly challenging with multiple character, diacritic, and unicode support. Working from scanned manuscripts, to Microsoft Word documents, to final InDesign layouts introduced a variety of new and surprising technology hurdles (font variants make even copy-pasting an adventure). Design and content considerations demanded an array of styles to indicate meaning, translations, and transliterations of various historical texts. Working directly with the author and a team of editors was valuable, and essential—in this case everything from line spacing to indents and other minutiae could change the meaning of a passage or entire chapter.
Published October 6, 2017 by Mattamayura Press. 6×9, 544 pages. Soft cover image courtesy Greg R. Perkins.
