A few thoughts on (physical) page layout…

Though I suppose much of this also applies to web page layout as well.

  1. White space matters.
  2. There is only so much room on  a page.
  3. In most cases, there are only so many pages that can reasonably go into a book.
  4. The more things you want to cram onto a page, the less room there is for stylistic flourishes.
  5. White space matters.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go back to banging my head against InDesign.