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Will you critique the layout of my first book chapter?


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Hi guys. Thanks for all your help over the last few weeks as I've started to learn Affinity Publisher.

Would you be willing to critique the layout of the first chapter of a book I"m laying out? I'd love feedback on font choices, layout, and any other factors you think need improvement. Thanks!

I've added the project's .afpub file to google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rglcSB3VGTVghF6vvon6jObluPB3SB2y/view?usp=sharing

I'm attaching the PDF below. 

FOFCLayout.pdf

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A few notes:

You have generous amount of white space at the top part. White space is good but I feel it is not distributed well, header text feels it's floating.

I would not put indent in the very first paragraph of the chapter. Only to the subsequent ones.

I might consider a little more leading in body text.

Is it a good choice to use sans serif in Introduction when other body text is serif? (It well may be but then there probably should happen some other change too – now they seem to fight each other somehow.)

I think I would put all tilted images to same direction – bottom to right.

I would use more offset in image text wraps (p 38).

Generally the document seems to be well designed and legible (y)

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