One thing I learned

[randy_byers]

Finished the printing of AmaZed and CorfluZed last night. One thing I learned is that carl packs a lot of text onto a page of Chunga. When I printed Chunga last year I burned through black toner like it was tinder. AmaZed and CorfluZed used very little black toner in comparison, even accounting for the much smaller print run. I'm not sure that the Chunga layout has less white space than Luke's lovely layout in AZ&CZ either. It's all about the density of the text. I would never have guessed it would make that big of a difference, although carl has long said that he fits a hell of a lot of words into our pages. Nothing like empirical evidence to bring the truth home.

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[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Just gave it a go in Word, and they both look good. Trebuchet is probably more my style than Tahoma. I was able to confirm that Garamond takes up less space than either, although Tahoma comes closest. Seems like elsewhere I've seen Georgia held up as a good font for fanzines. May have been jerrykaufman, but I seem to recall that typographical rock star John D. Berry agreed.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

According to my friend peterwright, who designed the font for recent editions of the Almanach de Gotha, Trebuchet was designed to look good both on the screen and on paper.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Ah, that might explain why it's called Trebuchet MS in Word. Wikipedia confirms that it was designed by Vincent Connare for Microsoft in 1996.

[wrdnrd]

See, this is what i love about zines -- rampant typeface neepery. Over beers at Big Time back in august, Alex, her friends, Andy, and i got to geeking out over Pantone colors.

Ahhh, this is the life.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Did I ever send you a copy of the last Science-Fiction Five-Yearly? One of the things we included (it was Geri's idea) was a Pantone chip -- a different one for every copy of the zine, of course.