gluing is terrifying

[clonecumber]

So I've only ever bound one book so far, a little more than a year ago, but I'm still very proud of it. I used various youtube videos and Hand Bookbinding: A Manual of Instruction by Aldren A. Watson (and a whole lot of Fear).

It's the Supervillainy short from Feynite's Scum Villain AU series on AO3, with permission, of course.




It's pretty rough, but it's held up okay! I'm hoping I'll be able to get back into it soon.

Comments

[kaasknot]

that is some crisp typesetting, what fonts did you use? have you checked out ASH's typesetting tutorial?

[clonecumber]

I haven't! I just tried a quick google search and didn't find anything either, but I'm interested.

And thank you :) I gripe, but typesetting is actually my favorite part haha. That and sewing the signatures. Fonts were Garamond (11) for the body and True Lies for the title page and headers. You can get True Lies from dafont; it's free for personal use.

[kaasknot]

Oh man I love the typesetting too, finding just the right font is A+. This is ASH's How To Make A Book gdoc, it's specific to pulling fic from AO3, but it has some excellent general tips for typesetting in Microsoft Word (and I think it also has links to tutorials for other software). I probably use Adobe Garamond Pro and Adobe Jenson Pro most often, though I've been using Crimson Text a lot, lately.

[clonecumber]

Thank you.