Layout

Starting Points

For layout tips, start with What makes an excellent layout?.

For guidance on whether to hire someone to do layout or to handle the job yourself, the short thread Opinion on Layout: Self or Contracted? is quite useful.

Other useful resources

For tips on good layout, try:

• Lashings of Ginger Beer layout/design help
• Q: Do you know why your PDF/printed game is hard to read?
• Organising text

Two short, but useful, discussions on alternative ways of paying someone for layout are:

• On paying a retainer: Paying the layout guy -- by the project or on retainer?
• On paying a percentage of profit: Graphic Designers

The discussion Layout Prices may be useful as a guide to pricing structures, although the prices themselves will date rapidly.

Searches

Search The Forge's Publishing Forum for layout, desktop.

Related topics

Fonts, Art