#typeset

[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✨

[getfuckedblr]

My completed bind of HEX by maidenmothercrone! This one gave me a little bit of an ass kicking bc I just had to gild every chapter heading, which ended up being like 200 chapters in all. But I’m so glad I stuck it out!!! This is one of m favorite timeline mash up’s ever and the way the author handles all of the plot lines is legit beautiful

[ifyoucandaniel]

just some details for my recent binds of @whyiskisehere ‘s iwaoi fics :)

[zulufic]

Typesetting with Adobe InDesign

I am going to teach myself to typeset with InDesign, and I will try to chronicle the process!

Starting point: I know there is a program called InDesign.

Step 1: Acquire InDesign.

Success!

[in-collection]

Hotel Vast Horizon by @rocket-eighty-eight

Heat (1995) | Vincent Hanna/Neil McCauley | 16,202 words | 100 pages

You can see and download the whole typeset HERE.

You can also print it if you want a copy for yourself! I provide printable files below. Check out the guide first ↓ The book is 11x18cm AKA 4,3x7,1" & can be printed with a coptic stitch or staples. Mine's printed on 80gsm grey recycled paper & 210gsm grey paper for the cover.

DOWNLOAD THE FILES / PRINTING & BINDING GUIDE

PRINTING NOTES: This typeset goes pretty close to the edges of the pages, so be careful when cutting it, and the first signature or so has double-spread images, so I'd really recommend making sure your double-sided printing is calibrated for this one (whether you're doing it at home or at a printing shop).

HEY!!!! HI! finally. If you've checked the Heat (1995) (Al Pacino and Robert De Niro Go on a Date: The Movie) tag on AO3 in the past year you've probably checked out Hotel Vast Horizon (Michael Mann Could Never: The Fic). Welp here it is on paper.

The common thread in the typeset was always the ocean (and shit, I said the o-word. did you know there are like 20 references to water, seas and storms in HVH, and yet never once "ocean" is said?). The other thread was the Bitstream Cooper typeface, which is round and curvy and so pleasing on the eye. Isn't it? Also Arial (underrated), because I needed it for the sequencing to show that Michael Mann is a loser. I'm kidding. Or am I? But this brings me to another major thing: the sequencing. (The common denominator between movies and books: the sequence.) That can only be apprehended on the full PDF/book, and it's really something that did not really exist (in so much depths) in the previous typesets.

As to what the sequencing is saying, or what the hell this intro is about (no I did not have a stroke when I did it), I will not say much if only that it is about the vocabulary, the image, the movie, the things that go beyond fate, a little bit Neil vs Vincent and a lot the reason vs the heart. More things shall remain unexplained because I feel they would be better experienced than laid out here.

If you'd still like to know what's actually going on in this thing don't hesitate to send in an ask lol.

More details on the technical matters + a visualization at the bottom, because there is work involved and my micro typography is so clean it could give Neil McCauley a boner.

help where do i even begin? I learnt how to use FontForge to create a new typeface specifically for that symbol at the beginning of the paragraphs in order to implement it in InDesign (see fig.1 below), I changed the Arial's @ in FontForge too (fig.2) to have it fit with the underline in @ rocket88, what the hell.

2. I also drew 11 (I think) illustrations for the intro (yes, those knots......), but that wasn't as complicated as I thought it would be. I do deeply curse InDesign's "Print Booklet" function for how much it hates images though.

3. I would like you to meet my InDesign characters styles (fig.3) as they simply are impeccable and the best you will ever see, I could not have been more professional if you had paid me 5 grand for this. The hyphens! The dashes! The custom small caps!

4. To get even further in the micro typography. It is, in most, most cases, much too time-consuming to properly kern (=modulate the space between your characters and/or words) your text for how little the average eye will get out of it, and/or your average graphic designer is certainly not getting paid enough to actually do it properly. I, on the other hand, am insane and unemployed, therefore yes, I kerned this shit. Micro typo is actually the sculpture of the white spaces of your page. When done thoroughly it does mean checking every characters with your own eyeballs.

So in english, since this typeset is in english, the rules are no spaces for punctuation. Right? and not right ? It makes for a pretty tight block. I do argue too tight - although of course you'll also have times where you want tight. (And this is all within the 5% of the time where kerning matters.) That might not sound too bad until you get to em-dashes, this '—' thing. Which is a literally useless punctuation mark that is so hysterically long it'll leave an unnatural horizontal void in your text and draw all attention to it—you know, instead of the text itself. Useless, because it can always be replaced by commas, colon, semicolon, or parentheses. Unnatural, because em/en-dashes do not follow a typeface's characteristics (when hyphens do! fig4), so they hardly fit with serifs, AND characters are generally vertically stressed in latin (fig5: which one looks normal?) except... well. So you'll have the tightest group of punctuation marks humping each other?!"— then a dash literally the size of a whole ass m that looks nothing like the rest. ridiculous. absurd.

Anyway the point is I said bye-bye to this aberration and used hyphens stretched at 260% (lmao. it works so well?). And sometimes 230%. Sometimes with a space after, sometimes not - if not the same meaning then why the same treatment (fig6)? I wondered at this point if I wasn't going too far (lol) but this is the point of micro typo, so, whatever. See fig7 for more kerning stuff.

5. I have far less things to say about this part than the last even though I must have spent twice as much time on it, but I just wanted to say that I manually set the text rag on all 69 pages, it looks nice, I love tetris, AND!!!! the greatest thing about the whole fucking book (fig8): the text starts on the top line of the first column, and ends, on p.91, on the LAST line of the column, at the very bottom of the page, and IT IS NOT. BY. CHANCE!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

thanks for reading. perfection has not been achieved and there might still be typos. see you later.

[ngtskynebula]

Dear diary,

It's 01:14 in the morning. I should be sleeping, but I am searching through the typesetting tag on Tumblr after I scoured YouTube's searches for Scribus guides 💣💥

I've decided I am going to learn how to typeset fics/books this year, even if I don't get around starting with actual fic-binding in 2024 ☝️🧐

[peachesnmatcha]

Dramione Fanfictions (PDF || Typeset)

Draco Malfoy and The Mortifying Ordeal of Being In Love PDF || Typeset (7 sheets per signature; non-illustrated)

Manacled [3 Volumes; Illustrated by Avendell] PDF || Typeset (Coming soon)

[neptunesenceladus]

A Black Mass Over Highway Ninety Typeset

recently I typeset A Black Mass Over Highway Ninety by @greenvlvetcouch. I was originally going to wait for the epilogue to come out but due to popular demand have typeset it as is and will make a separate one to include the epilogue when it is done (and a typeset with just the epilogue on its own).

You can find the typeset in this google drive folder and more details about it below the keep reading line.

Firstly, a few things regarding this typeset:

Please do not use for-profit sites to print this fic. This generally applies to any fic I typeset (so if you do please don’t tell me), but is also specified by the author of this work in their notes on the fic. Instead you can bind it by hand or find a bookbinder who will do it for the cost of materials. I have a list of some resources for bookbinding in the typesets section on my page.

There is artwork from the fic inside this typeset so make sure you are printing in colour for the best quality.

there were also a ton of links embedded in the end notes so I’ve just turned those into shortened url’s and added them in brackets to their respective notes

I usually put the chapter summary just in the appendix but really liked the formatting for these ones so they’re also at the start of each chapter for this fic. I haven’t read this fic so hopefully that works well with the flow of the story.

There are four documents in the folder, all 6″x9″. There is the full fic as both a word document and a PDF, and the two other PDFs are Volume One and Volume Two. The full fic should be a fine length on its own but if you want is thinner volume one and two are for you.

The page counts (all multiples of 24) are:

Full Fic - 648 Pages

Volume One - 336 Pages

Volume Two - 336 Pages

Please let me know if there are any issues with the typesets! Enjoy.

[cyborgjack]

[image: A picture of a computer screen showing a Word document titled 'Creature Comforts.' Smaller text blocks read 'a Trigun Hurt/Comfort fanfic anthology,' 'the crossdressing fic isn't H/C, that’s just indulgence,' and 'OCCASIONALLY EXPLICIT.' A wanted poster of Vash the Stampede from the '98 anime and a wanted poster of Vash the Stampede from the Trigun: Stampede anime are on the right side of the page. On the left is a chibi-style manga panel of Nicholas D. Wolfwood straddling a prone Vash, caught in the act of punching him while Meryl Stryfe reaches out to stop them. Wolfwood and Meryl are staring at the viewer. Vash looks nervous, but it’s unclear where he’s looking because he has his sunglasses on]

Feeling incredibly smug about this anthology typeset title page.

I’ve been building a lot of anthology typesets because I love oneshots 20k or less and this is a great way to compile some of my favorite short fics under a vague theme umbrella. Pretty much any Trigun fic is probably Hurt/Comfort if you squint enough, though the referenced crossdressing fic really is just clothing/costuming porn with. Literal porn.

[ourladyofomega]

📸 source: Krom Days

[vintageterror]

[vorkrax]

FINALLY

IT'S HAPPENING

My illustration project is slowly coming together. I decided to typeset and illustrate my old old ooold short story about my OC's, and it made me realize I actually still love this whole world and my characters are awesome (idc that I said that about my own stuff)

Not to mention I am still in love with typesetting, I could do that for hours and days at this point

Anyway... mockups! It's so nice to see my text and illustrations on a mockup, imagining holding it in my hands ♥ Maybe one day~

[frogsandfries]

To whoever cares, I shared my typeset of Debt of Time book one on the Amateur Fanfic Binding Group on Facebook.

I'm not printing it at two in the morning because I am not fucking with ink at this hour and I need to top off my tanks.

[metabotulism]

[rosetypesets]

I recently completed a typeset for Best Friend’s Brother by zeppazriel [AO3].

This was my first “toe dip” into reading Jegulus and I thoroughly enjoyed this Muggle AU. The friendships, banter, and overall writing was just fantastic.

You can access the booklet typeset for free HERE.

[in-collection]

Accidents of Happenstance & Other Poems by orangery

Heat (1995-2022) | Vincent Hanna/Neil McCauley | 8,286 words | 112 pages

You can see the full typeset HERE.

You can also print it if you want a copy for yourself, I provide printable files below. The book is 11x18cm AKA 4,3x7,1" & can be printed with a coptic stitch or staples or saddle stitch. Mine's printed on 80gsm grey recycled paper & 210gsm grey paper for the cover.

DOWNLOAD THE FILES / PRINTING & BINDING GUIDE

PRINTING NOTES: this file is sadly a bitch to print due to the overabundance of double-spread images, which means you need pretty good double sided calibration to have the black background be aligned... or just accept the offset... good luck it took me 4 tries lol.

Second and last typeset for a Heat fic, this one is severely underrated (go read it). Well, I get that poet!Vincent Hanna would confuse most people, but the fic remains amazing. Crack treated seriously is the best... Vincent could be a poet... as a treat...

As for the typeset, I think this time, less will be more. I'll gladly answer an ask if you want to know more but until then... I'll leave it at that.