#also featuring my stack of test signatures i made while fucking with formatting and visuals

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whatre signatures? :0

!!!! where's the post about "oh good i get to explain this to you" bc that feels relevant

signatures are the collections of pages that you sew together to create a book!!

when you print out the pages, you print them with each paper having 4 pages so that you can fold the papers in half. the signatures are just a collection of those printed out in such a way that when you stack and fold them, the pages are in the right order.

here's some examples! this is one paper printed out, and it has page 2 and page 7 right next time each other

and then this paper is folded between them, with page 3 as the next page, pages 4 and 5 are on the inside, and page 6 is on the back half of it completing the order

signatures are usually multiple papers stacked this way, anywhere from 4-5 up to like 20 or more ??? (which is a lot imo)

and then you sew them together, and that's the book! (a drawn example of what that looks like, more or less!)