#Typesetting

[phoenixortheflame]

Bound: Love Will Abide by @dodgerkedavra

Typeset and bound by: me, @phoenixortheflame. Featuring art by: @babooshkart

Harry and Draco survive the apocalypse. This is what happens after.

If you've watched the Last of Us, you know that episode.

It's one of the best hours of television I've ever seen, even if it did leave me a sobbing, incoherent mess for weeks.

And so when I came across this fic based on that very episode, I was intrigued. And Dodger assured me — she ASSURED me — it has a not-tragic ending, so I pulled up my big-girl socks and read the damn thing. And, oh boy, am I ever glad I did. Good doesn't even begin to describe it. It's PERFECT.

For the design concept, I knew I wanted to incorporate similar typography as the show, but also tie in some of the imagery repeated throughout the fic.

When I found this still life painting of wild strawberries by Adriaen Coorte in the public domain, I knew it would become the cover.

The fic is only 41k words, so designed it as a legal quarto, and it's the perfect little paperback size.

I used Affinity Publisher to create my typeset. It's the second fic I've typeset using this program, and I highly recommend it as a more affordable (and non-subscription) alternative to Adobe.

There were a lot of scene breaks in this fic, so I broke them up with horizontal lines when dates were indicated and tiny strawberry graphics when they weren't.

I was lucky to be able to include art by @babooshkart, which Dodger commissioned for the fic. It's so gorgeous and suits the fic perfectly.

I hope you love it, Dodger. Your story means so much to me — as does your friendship!

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Ok, as a writer who ALSO loves using em dashes to denote a sudden cessation of speech, and as an editor, I am BEGGING whoever typesets the files for JLA's physical books:

Use nonbreaking spaces between em dashes and closing double quotation marks. PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. I cannot handle multiple instances of an em dash at the end of one line and the closing quotation marks at the beginning of the next.

This is torture and I hate it.

[moonycigs]

Here are my covers for Crimson Rivers by Zeppazariel ! I wanted them to be similar to the og hunger games covers where each book has its own color. Divided into 3 parts bc I didn’t know we were splitting it into 5 until I was pretty much already done sooo��

[lady-inkyrius]

[Source]

God this is a gorgeous way to start a book. I wish more authors and publishers had at least a little bit of fun with their typesetting like this.

[the-leech-lord]

One Piece Party Vol 3 Backcover minicomic

Picture and translation by @568a | link

I DID NOT DO THE TRANSLATION ONLY THE LETTERING

If you have anything One Piece Party or One Piece Academy that you want me to typeset I’ll do it but I CANT TRANSLATE so it must be provided along with the picture (scans preferred)

[chillentertainer]

starving works, heaven dust, another, anyhow, i've got a match, smoke gets in your eyes by @lesbiancolumbo

[jessonel]

"Away Childish Things" by lettered @letteredlettered

Here are a few close-ups of the details from the artwork I created for this typeset! Each typeset and bind had its own color theme, this one is the blue version!

Artwork and typeset(s) by @jessonel

Binds (Part 1)

[shalottpress]

The Pack Survives by @astolat.

My second bind had to be this Robb Stark centric masterpiece that has lived rent free in my brain since December 2023. I wanted to get this finished before the year anniversary hit in December.

I love this bind and she is my beloved second born but holy hell I’m glad she is done.

In all honesty, this bind was cursed from the off. Everything that could have gone wrong with this bind went wrong. I had to resew the signatures because wood oil, I made my design slightly too big so adding it to the cover was wonky and I melted parts of the black vinyl adding my silver vinyl to the book cloth to name but a few mistakes. I didn’t dare try to trim her edges, lord knows where I would have ended up.

All that said I’m still proud of her and wanted to share. Done is better than perfect and I hope I look back in a year and see how far I have truly come.

The Pack Survives can be read for free on AO3.

[cmdonovann]

public domain typesets :3c

okay final post for today i swear. here's my gdrive folder of typesets i've made of public domain books for binderary! you can just print any of these bad boys and make a book! have fun :3

(and again, there's a README with permissions info, you get the drill, just don't make money off my work. and you can donate to my ko-fi if you really want but it's absolutely not required, lol. thanks!)

[lifeonmarls]

Crimson Rivers typeset: books and their covers

fic by @mayzarbewithyou on ao3

art by @/likeafunerall on ig

typeset by me 😁

volume one is finished i'm still working on the other two since i want to make sure it's perfect i added everything in THIS drive doc 🫶🏼🫶🏼

This typeset is just for the first 25 chapters since i'm splitting up the fic in 3 books so 25 chapters for each volume !

feel free to use these at your own leisure , please send me a picture! i would love to see how they turn out 💘

some pictures to show how some of my favourite pages look like✨

[phoenixortheflame]

Bound: Soup-pocalypse and The Great Curry Cataclysm by SquadOfCats

Typeset, bind, and illustrations by: me, @phoenixortheflame.

Eleven years after the war, Draco Malfoy leads a quiet, boring, and perfectly respectable life, thanks very much. Or, at least he does, until a sudden and very unexpected veela awakening causes him to throw soup all over Harry Potter in the middle of the Ministry cafeteria.

Every once in a blue moon I pull together a bind in four days, and other times I agonize over it for months. This was one of those rare occasions where inspiration hit — and then simply did not quit.

The cover of the bind was inspired by the novel Icarus by K. Ancrum. And I drew veela Draco based on a tattoo of a falling Icarus, which is an adaptation of the Phaeton from "The Four Disgracers" (ty @haxkattpress for the art lesson!)

For programs I used Procreate for the illustrations (veela Draco, bowl, waffle), Affinity Publisher for the typeset, Designer for the full-title page typography treatment, and Canva for the book cover.

There are a lot of letters sent between Draco and Harry in this fic, so I chose handwriting for each of them.

Finally, I did a sneaky little inside cover design featuring waffles. Regular or fish — you decide!

I did not make a copy for the author, as they've left the fandom; however, I made sure to check that they have blanket permission for binds. (That said, Squad, if you see this and you want a copy, send me a DM!)

As always, the extra copies are gifts. No money was exchanged.

If you have any questions and want to learn how to bind fic for yourself, feel free to get in touch!

[wolfpants]

Yesterday afternoon, when I was in a bit of a frazzle getting ready to go out, the postie knocked on my door and delivered the most magical gift I've ever received 🥹

Not one, but FOUR gorgeous binds from @plor-bindery 😭

I am utterly blown away by Plor's generosity, skill, and attention to detail. These have become the most treasured items on my bookshelf... dare I say my home (don't tell my cat)?!

More incohrent gushing and pics under the cut...

Everybody Hates a Tourist

That colour combination! The texts-as-a-blurb! The magical burst of rainbows (and pineapples!)! And don't even get my started on the interiors...

The postcard picture - also found on the fic's banner and Spotify playlist - made me gasp. And each chapter has its own gorgeous illustration, and - god, can we talk about drop caps please?! And the texts?

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Under Giant Mountains

The foiling here is just *chef's kiss*, and that colour green is so gorgeous. The dragon! The quote! I also love the size of this one, it's so smart to choose a smaller format, it feels like a proper vintage book, like something found on Draco's shelf in his little cabin. Absolute perfection.

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In My Room

I cannot believe I am holding a bound Dron book in my hands 😭 And one with such thoughtful artwork, so true to the story! The record player! The chess board with the chess pieces, weed and vinyls! I want the endpaper for this one plastered on my walls please... it's so Ron.

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Kinkuary '23

When I opened the package and unwrapped this one last, I thought Plor had sent me a vintage book, but then after flipping through it, I realised it was covered in a modesty jacket 😈 Which I love, because again, it feels so... naughty and Victorian 😌 Picking that quote from the gay orgy fic is the absolutely cherry here. Brilliant! Inspired!

There is so much detail here I don't even know where to start. I love how each story includes its description, how each scene is separated with handcuffs, and... the index! Reading through some of my (quite frankly insane) tags had me absolutely howling (shoutout to "Draco Malfoy... is HORNY").

Here they all are, taking pride of place on my shelf. Honestly, the most beautiful gift. I can't even begin to explain what it feels like to hold my own writing, in black and white and on paper, in my hands. So surreal. I am so, so grateful. Thank you so much Plor, you lovely, lovely human!

[zerosconsort]

Zero's Fic Binding - Maybe Tomorrow

Maybe Tomorrow by @scifigrl47

Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel) – All Media Types

Ship: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Start Date: 4/12/24

End Date: 5/2/24

Pages: 433

On my list of fics to bind, Maybe Tomorrow was the one I saw the most clearly in my head before I started. I had an idea in my mind immediately - knew what I wanted the cover to look like, knew the chapter headers - the vision for this bitch was so clear the entire time I was working on it.

The fic is a an Annie retelling. I wanted the cover to combined a playbill vibe - pulling the city scape from some of the covers - and the Gatsby vibe. The Empire state building was my main inspiration - it combines those two thing brilliantly.

I could not find a skyline of New York that I like. So I made one. This cover is built out of MANY small squares that are masked behind other squares. There are…so many individual paces of this cover. It took me WAY to long, but I this was one of those times where I knew exactly what I wanted this to look like, and I did it.

Ok, let me nerd out for a second. Specifically I wanted the sun burst on the front - and on the top of the spine - here to look like some of the old art deco elevators floor indicators. The hollow gold really fucking pulls the whole cover together. The Broadway font, the hollow gold vinyl - honestly, this was my favorite cover. It's the most themed, that's for sure - and also the most detailed.

End pages are that lovely art deco arch. Commit to the bit. Can tell that the binding tape is a little thick/the end paper is a little to thin - so you can see them ghosting just slightly. Still, the shiny gold fans were fucking perfect.

Ok, moving on. The typeset for this chunky boy is also lovely. Every chapter has different top header frames. The Broadway style font for the headers and the drop caps are all gold.

This was my first try imbedding images into the chapters as well, relating them to whatever is going on in the fic.

Including the shot of my splash page too. I've started to define this a lot more now, but this was the first time I think I detailed this page this much.

This is one of my fucking favorite fics. I love everything about it - the plot, the character writing, the mood. Scifigrl47 was the first writer I tripped over on my way into the Steve/Tony fandom….fucking, what? Ten years ago? It's a pleasure to read their fics, always, and I'm ecstatic to have it on my shelf now.

If you somehow haven't read this fic, you're welcome.

[mpchev]

Dissertation on Fanfiction Bookbinding — Looking for participants! [EDIT: Thank you so much, participants found!!!]

[Edit continued: I'm still sorting through emails and setting up meetings, will reply to everyone very soon, I can't even begin to thank everyone enough for the visibility that's been given to this 💜 I'll keep the updates coming as I work on the dissertation (and learn how to bookbind), in case anyone would like to follow along. For any questions about the research or comments/suggestions/resources about ficbinding, my asks are wide open. Thank you thank you thank you!!!]

Hi! My name is Marie Chevrier, I’m currently doing my postgraduate dissertation on fanfiction bookbinding, and I’m looking for people to talk to about it!

If you’ve ever taken a fanfic from somewhere online and turned it into a physical copy, either for yourself or as a gift, I’d love to know more. From printer paper stapled together to typesetting and painted edges, nothing is too simple or too complex — I’m interested in the whole process, what motivates readers or authors to bring the story to a different format, and how it’s one more way to interact with stories actively and creatively. This will be the final project of my MLitt in Folklore and Ethnology with the Elphinstone Institute (University of Aberdeen, Scotland).

What to Expect

To participate, you must be 18 or older and speak English. I’ll give you more details and answer any questions you might have via email, and will then set up individual video calls with participants (if you happen to be in North-East Scotland, we could also meet at an agreed public location). I’ll tell you more about the dissertation and explain how what you share will be used, which depends entirely on what you agree to, including if you would prefer your contribution to be credited or anonymised. I will ask you about your experience with fanfiction bookbinding and if you have some examples to show me, I would love to see them! Meetings will last approximately 45–90 minutes and take place in June 2024. You have the right to withdraw your participation at any time.

Contact Information

If you’d like to participate or have any questions, please send me an email at m.chevrier.23@abdn.ac.uk

To know more about the Elphinstone Institute, please visit https://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/

To know more about me, here's an intro post for you.

If for any reason you don’t wish to participate but still have comments/suggestions/resources/musings you’d like to send my way, please do!

[the-leech-lord]

One Piece Party Vol 2 minicomic

Picture and translation by @568a | link

I DID NOT DO THE TRANSLATION ONLY THE LETTERING

This one was a pain in the ass to do lol. The last one was the only one to fit in the bubble

If you have anything One Piece Party or One Piece Academy that you want me to typeset I’ll do it but I CANT TRANSLATE so it must be provided along with the picture (scans preferred)

[quacheta]

Little Kid With A Big Death Wish changed my brain, so I typeset it. And then @remedyturtles indicated they're okay with me sharing it. So there's also a link to the Google Drive files if anyone wants it:

Note: There are FOUR versions in the folder. This is because (due to the way I designed the pages, mostly; I wanted it to be pretty, okay? I wanted it to be thematic) the full book is almost 900 pages long. So if you want it as an electronic file to read, or if you are actually ambitious enough to bind a 900-page 5x8 book, you want the 'Deathwish Full' files. Otherwise, if you are sane, I broke it up into three 300-page-ish sections, which are Part 01, Part 02, and Part 03.

Regular .pdf files are the individual pages in order. These are the files you want if you (a) are downloading this to read electronically, or (b) intend to pass the file through your own imposition software. (Like if you want to print on paper that isn't letter-sized, for example.)

Bookbinder folders have the imposed PDFs. Meaning: the files you want if you're going to print and bind this thing. Within those folders, the 'typeset' files are aggregate (the whole book, with ALL the signatures, are in the one single PDF). Signature folders have (you guessed it!) individual signatures. These are good for test prints (four pieces of paper is a cheaper test print than, you know, 70-something), or just making sure your printer doesn't run out of juice as you go.

All of the book is in color. But it's also all (mostly all) blues and greys, and I did a test print on my blank and white printer at home. So if you don't have access to a color printer (or the money), I promise it still looks nice in black and white. :)

A second note, on margins and bleed: the artwork does extend into the bleed (or at least, it's supposed to). Please keep that in mind when choosing a printer and your print settings. Please also do a test print. Please please please.