Les Parents Terribles - Jean Cocteau

typeface classifcation : humanist or old style

type size : 10 pts

leading : 10 pts

margins (picas) :

head : 5p6

foot : 6p6

inside : 3p

outside : 2p6

number of lines : 38 

page size (inches): 4 1/4 x 7

The book is a theatre piece by Jean Cocteau called Les Parents Terribles

The layout used in all books that are theatre piece. There’s always the title at the top center on the left page, and the act and scene number at the top center of the right page. The text is only dialogue. Each time a character start its sentence, there’s an small indent, its name and then what its saying. When there’s action that the characters does, it’s either justified to the right,after his name or of it’s in its sentence its in parenthesis and the action is always in italic.

This text will help me layout dialogue and help me understood how crystal goblet typography can be used in other texts than essays.