Fonts and printing help?

[Mark_Wilkin]

An amateur's guide to IC typesetting

[size=200]Introduction[/size] Hi, I’m Dre. I’m here to share my experiences with producing IC documents for LARP. When I started out, I had no experience in desktop publishing whatsoever, but I wanted to create booklets and pamphlets and other documents that would feel immersive, rather than remind people of their actual modern printed origin. Over the years I’ve learned a few things and I wanted to share. I’ll say it now: I’m by no means an expert at this. There are others with far greater sk…

Convincingly faking handwriting from fonts

Fed up of crap-looking printed IC documents? Read on. Beware, doing a proper job of this will probably take longer than just writing it by hand but it will look nice and you’ll be able to make multiple prints and digital images etc. if you want. You need Illustrator or similar (e.g. Inkscape) for this tutorial. I’ve assumed that people reading on are familiarish with Illustrator, I’m not going into mega detail about where to find all these options. End result. The text on the left in black is …

Making paper props - hints and tips

Inspired by Dre’s typesetting suggestions over in the Costume forum I thought it would be good to have a place for easy tips for making good looking paper props digitally. I am in no way a digital art specialist but thought I’d share what works for me. Tip1 - the most useful Photoshop noob trick you’ll ever learn. You’ve got a gorgeous image and you want to make it look more IC. Even printing on parchment paper, the image is just too ‘clean’ and modern-looking. Google for a high res background …

Dre and Daisy know the score