OSR OSR Layout and Design Thread

[dbolack]

Very nice! And, frankly, more personality than a lot of the existing Shadowdark templates out there.

Found that halfway through building one of my own, and was sooooooo glad-mad.

 

[Scribe]

Just to tag team on to my last post with an example that lines up with examples of what folks have cited working on.

A Shadowdark theme.

ShadowBrew – a ShadowDark template - sibling_dex

A Shadowdark RPG - Homebrewery template

homebrewery.naturalcrit.com

Thats real nice.

 

[Fenris-77]

So I did a list of 100 Alchemy ingredient for the class I'm working on and I went to 10pt font to fit it into an A5 spread. Do you guys think this is readable enough at A5? I don't normally go below 11pt.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think it's fine, but if you go any smaller and you're in Knock territory, which can be hard to read, especially with some of their backgrounds.

 

[Fenris-77]

I think it's fine, but if you go any smaller and you're in Knock territory, which can be hard to read, especially with some of their backgrounds.

No, you'll have to pry my manuscript from my cold, dead hands to include single digit font.

 

[Fenris-77]

Here's the whole spread

 

[Fenris-77]

Arrgh. Wrong thread. Sigh.

 

[Vicente]

I am a huge fan of typst, which is kind of a modern version of Latex. One example of a personal project, you can see examples of data to table (the Intelligence table), references to other chapters (the ref to Chapter 6), optional rules box... Still a super newbie on typography and layout (trying to learn from Practical Typography).

And this is how it looks when I'm working on it (I do my writing in Visual Studio Code, the project is in github so I can have source control).