What Is a Book?

Type and grid part one: sections, ratios and grids.

A book is a printed object. Leaves are individual sheets within a bound book, pages are leaves that have a font and back which are referred to as a page, and spreads, when bound right and left (recto + verso) are centred on a gutter. A perfect bound book consists of pages, leaves and spreads of equal aspect and ratio size. Columns are divided with a space, not a single line. 

Magazine 1:

From the layout, I have traced over the spread and marked out the column layout. I have then defined the image and text boxes.














Magazine 2:

Magazine 3:

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Magazine 7: