THE PAGE97 Margins and gutters
THE SPACES WITHIN AND BETWEEN areas of text are places where the eye can rest; they also help define the tenor of the content. Books have a more leisurely pace and the margins and gutters reflect that pacing; magazines and newspapers are “busier” and more urgent in their appearance, so the space around the text is lessened.
Gutters and the space they require depend on the width of the project and the binding (as well as the weight and flexibility of the stock). A saddle-stitched project will fall open to the page more easily and therefore need less space across the gutter; a perfect-bound project, stiffer in the middle, will need more gutter space so that the text does not get “swallowed up” in the middle.
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