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Re: Do 17
Reducing font size is an excellent thing. I really loved the 2-volume set From Barbarossa to Odessa as it was filled with text, not empty space. Some Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust books are awful as the font is huge that in order to get the text within the page count the line spacing has been cut too narrow in relation to the font height.
It is also imperative to keep lines short (i.e. an A4 page is best with 3 columns, 2 is ok, but 1 is terrible). A very good layout example is Dennis Jenkins's Space Shuttle book.
I, for one, prefer text over photos, especially if the photos are not of premium quality (e.g. in an aircraft close up photo the resolution is too low to show rivet lines) and show generic scenes (production line photos showing manufacturing and design features are excellent, but most frontline photos are simply uninteresting).
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