Parts Of A Book Gutter

Illustrators must be conscious of the gutter when designing their art especially artwork that extends over both the left and right pages so that detail doesn t disappear within the seam of the pages when the book is bound.

Parts of a book gutter.

External parts of a book dust jacket example. The left and right pages when the book is open meet in the gutter. The gutter is a term used to describe the seam of the book where the book is bound. Try that as a starting point and modify from there.

Inside cover of a paperback. It is intentionally left blank. The inside cover of a paperback is the literal back of the cover. To printers the gutter refers to the wider space left in the forme between the fore edges of two abutting pages.

The gutter as a printers term carter went on to note that printers define the gutter slightly differently. A special band at the top of the spine that hides the glue and helps keep the spine together. A good initial approach is to have left and right outer margins equal and have a sum of inner margins when viewed in an opened book so account for gutter equal in width to an outer margin. Anything within the gutter typically isn t visible.

This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open. A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books. The space on the inside margin of pages where the book is bound. In an open book recto is the page on the right side.

So the gutter is generally thought of as a necessary evil an inconvenience or simply the least interesting part of a book.