an anthology of fics by ariex09
May 4, 2025
Two-piece bradel with paper inlay and design in heat transfer vinyl.
What do you do when half your favorite fics in a fandom are by the same author? And many of them are too short to bind on there own? You mash em all together in an anthology. And luckily for me it just so happened to be close to the anniversary of the first fic's publication, so I could frame the book as "one year in fandom." A fandomversery present, if you will. Turns out it's hard to come up with a coherent visual theme for a book that's actually 10 separate stories. I could've gone with the tried and true beach/ocean imagery, because that comes up a lot in this fandom, but I'd done that before, and I had some nice green marbled paper I wanted to use, so I ended up theming the book around a green and gold color scheme. This is probably the most intricate typeset I've ever done, because I wanted to include descriptions and metadata at the top of every fic, and include the QR codes in a tasteful way. I knew I wanted an inlay on the front for that "classy" feel, but couldn't decide what to do with the back, so I covered the back in paper to avoid having to come up with a design.
Materials: covers - 2 mm grey board spine stiffener - paperboard covering material - green suede bookcloth inlay - marbled jute fiber paper vinyl - cricut brand gold and silver foil
endpapers - cream and gold vellum paper endbands - faux double core french endband, with cotton embroidery floss textblock paper - Hammermill 20lb printer paper, cream, 8.5x11
Typeset: Designed in Microsoft Word. The body font is Amasis MT Pro, headings are in Cormorant SC, and "handwritten" sections are in Brotherland Signature, Weddingday Revisited, Antically, and Architect's Daughter. Images from Pexels.
Cover Design: Designed in Photopea. Font is Cormorant SC. Shell image from openclipart.
dimensions: 5.5"x8.5"
Some earlier design tests: