Basic Rules of Book Design

Basic rules of book design:

• Don’t end a page with the first line of a new paragraph.
• Don’t begin a page with the last line of a paragraph.
• Don’t begin or end a page with a line that ends in a hyphen.
• Don’t end a page with a one-word line.
• Don’t use more than two hyphenations in a row on two consecutive lines (and if you can at all help it, don’t use more than one in a row).
• When you start a chapter on a recto page and the facing verso page is blank, do not put a header or a page number on the blank verso page.
• Front matter of a book is numbered with Roman numbers. The first page of the first chapter is page 1.
• Table of Contents pages do not get page numbers or headers.