EVS-ISO 6357:2011

This International Standard establishes rules for the general layout (position and orientation) and use of spine titles and corresponding text used on books, serial publications, periodicals, reports and other forms of documentation such as cases, cassettes, and comparable items intended for placing on shelves. It is applicable only to text with Roman, Greek or Cyrillic characters. It includes rules for allocating a space on the spine, to be used for library identification purposes, and rules for the use of edge titles.