It's still Binderary! Time to share a new project, and this one was SO fun, both in typesetting and design.
I had absolutely not planned it in my Binderary projects, but it was love at first sight. If you follow my main, you probably noticed that I am enamored with @scorp2510's HSR/VLD crossover, in which Keith is declared Killed In Action. His dying body was actually found by the crew of the Astral Express, who brought him to Herta Space Station so he could be regenerated.
File Code: HSS-CR-Δ-07 is the story of this treatment (...and mistreatment), told through medical reports written by researchers of Herta's Space Station.
The design of the cover is directly inspired by the icon for readables from the game. I went for a three-piece binding, with a rather absurdly round spine to try and create the "clipboard" effect, on which I added glued pieces of perlescent paper for the "copper-like" part of it.
The inside is where the fun is, OF COURSE.
Questionnaire, handwritten notes, report headers?
This fic has it all and it allowed me to go ALL OUT with my typesetting fancies. I could go full pseudo-scrapbooking fashion.
Font-wise, I picked:
- a classic Courier New for the body, which seemed to fit the stern appearance of medical reports
- DIN for internal notes, since it's the font used in the game
- the HSR Universal Script for the titles. I made myself a font from the characters on the Honkai Star Rail wiki, so it was easier to type full words.
- Blossoming Constellation by Letterhanna Studio for Ruan Mei.
- Biro Script by ingoFont for the nameless researcher as well as the checked boxes in the questionnaire (they're V and L that I just toyed with to try and make look more natural. It only came to me afterwards that I might as well have printed the sheet and ticked things by hand. Ah well.)
- Evening Wind by Khurasan for Asta's handwriting
- the incredibly fun Redacted Script by Christian Naths for signatures
The handwritten fonts were chosen to try and match the vibe of the handwritten notes on some of the in-game readables:
For the endpages, I reused the Galra font I made for another scrapbook-like Voltron Legendary Defender project from a few months ago, in which I wrote the Credo of the Trailblaze from the lyrics of the song Interstellar Journey. It felt an appropriate way to convey the crossover: Keith is a half-Galra who becomes a Nameless. I just plastered another HSS logo on it for good measure. Since I re-drew this to have a vectorised version, I might as well make it count, right?
Overall, as usual, quite a lot of FAAFO. I can't get enough :)
Thank you so much, Scorp, for letting me have fun with your precious AU and for continuously bearing with my overwhelming enthusiasm! I'm in so deep and I love it.
