Friday 27th - CoP Developments

Blue highlight = essay research influence

To do today:

• Reformat highway code to 205mm x 143mm:
  - Times (don't do this, it didn't looks good in previous test)
  - Times and Helvetica ✅
  - Helvetica ✅
• Print and bind highway code:
  - Perfect bind (Times) ✅
  - Coptic Bind (Times and Helvetica)

To do over the weekend:

• Go over essay, read whole thing add in anything extra
• Go over CoP blogs and add in references to the practical

MANAGED TO FIGURE OUT PRINTING

Perfect bound:

- Sans serif titles

- Serif body text

• Size:
  - Really nice to hold
  - Would need to make slightly wider as perfect bind takes up space inside (especially in the margins)
• Type:
  - Typeface is a good size, but as it is rather small I find it's easier to read the sans serif compared to serif (thinking back to Morris et al (2002) who found readers read sans serif fonts 4x faster than serif fonts at smaller sizes).

Forgot to add navigation dots need to put these in next draft.

Coptic Bound:

- sans serif everywhere

• Size:
  - Again good size
  - Easy to manage and hold
• Bind:
  - Allows the book to lie flat so the margin spacing isn't as much of an issue
  
• Type:
  - At 7.5 pt I find sans serif easier to read as it is such small text, not sure if this is appropriate or not. Need to ask more people. 
  - Research looks into sans serif being more legible at smaller sizes:
  > Arditi et al 1990 - Crowding affects ability to understand letter and therefore words. 
  > (Serif vs. Sans for Text in Print, n.d.) - For other shorter text settings – such as captions, credits, column headings, as well as text in charts and graphs – a sans serif typeface can be a good choice. Its simplified letterforms are unencumbered by serifs, which can impede the readability of characters at very small sizes.
  > (Romney 2005) - while serif typefaces are inherently easier to read, sans serif typefaces can be just as readable, if they are used properly.
  > (Morris et al, 2002) - readers can read sans-serif type about 20% faster at very small sizes. This advantage disappears at larger sizes.

Things to think about:
How does the binding of books influence how the reader interacts with them?

What production methods provide an easy reading experience?

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Problems found from printing:

> Some pages look really low 
- in particular chapter 4 as it is a longer chapter.

Could do with moving up slightly to fix this. 
Needs to be more balanced, yo sit on page well.

>Margins are they too close to the edge?
- Need to look at other books and compare:

Seems to be a large difference between the books.

- 'The Form of the Book Book' has much larger margins but this is the book that has more traditional formatting than the others. It has chapters to be read in a linear manner.
- All the other books had much smaller margins and were able to be dipped in and out of. 

Thinking more about the contents page:

Developing ideas:

Mixed case for chapter titles and caps for content, and having it central to the page, colourful dot.

- Strong hierarchy

- Could do with more development as currently rather simple.

- Like the incorporation of colour, is enough but could maybe given more of an obvious relation to the chapters.

Uppercase for chapter titles and contents title, and having it aligned to the top left, colourful dot.
- Alignment to the top left seems a little odd within the page, makes for a large amount of white space. Feel this would be more appropriate if there were more chapters to the book.
- I think the use of uppercase for the chapter titles works well as it links to the titles on those pages well.
- Wider spacing to emphasise chapters but I think this works against the design, the use of dots and bold text is enough to create hierarchy without the space. 

Uppercase for chapter titles and contents title, and having it aligned to the top left, colourful text.
- The colourful titles is slightly distracting, also for the yellow text it's difficult to read due tot he fact it is pale (this could be changed to a different colour that stands out more but I think the colourful dots are effective enough). 

Uppercase for chapter titles and contents title, and having it centred, colourful dots.
- Combination of the most successful elements, centred works with the number of chapters in the book, less space between chapters as hierarchy is still well established with capitalised and bold chapter titles (this is nicely carried through to the page numbers creating consistency and assisting navigation).

MANAGING TIME: 

30 Mon	1 Tue	2 Wed	3 Thu	4 Fri
Start thinking about Cover - initial ideas: - Traffic signs - Road markings etc. Research into existing ones.	Refine design inside pages of publication - Serif typeface - Navigation dots - All details	Print book and test with covers. Refine and finalise cover design.	Check essay bibliography - make corrections.	@10 Submission Briefing  Finalise publication and send to print.