[6524] in APO Printshop
Re: Wedding Invitation Design Draft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jen Selby)
Wed Apr 4 02:49:17 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAPadfSDU-B_wENYX-4TFvw0qbFDgTBA7pTszSr+CfsN=tmU5ZQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 23:49:15 -0700
From: Jen Selby <jenselby@gmail.com>
To: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
Cc: Nick Martin <nim@nimlabs.org>
Hi Everyone,
Andrew isn't going to be able to do this run. Is anyone else able to
print these invitations in the next two weeks?
All of the information is included below. Please feel free to email me
if you have any questions. We're happy to be flexible about how things
look in order to get this done without ordering any new supplies (even
if it means, for instance, printing on different colors of card stock
for different invitations).
If no one is able to do this, that's fine, but we need to know one way
or the other very soon.
YiLFS,
Jen Selby
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Jen Selby <jenselby@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Here are the updated drafts of our layout. There were a few wording
> changes, and a number of changes in where we placed the linebreaks.
>
> Let us know if you have any questions, or if there is anything we
> should change based on the supplies the print shop has on hand.
>
> We would like to have these by early April, if possible.
>
> Jen Selby
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Jen Selby <jenselby@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I'm sorry I'm getting this to you a little later than I promised, but
>> I hope it's still early enough that you'll be able to print these up
>> over spring break, as you hoped. This is our first draft of the
>> layout. Please let us know of anything that would be difficult to lay
>> out nicely. We're happy to make changes. We'll send an updated version
>> after we get feedback from some other people.
>>
>> Since (sadly) Nick and I use HTML/CSS more often than LaTeX these
>> days, we used that to lay out the designs. I'm including a PDF (to
>> skirt browser display issues) as well as the HTML and CSS source
>> files, in case those are useful for getting details of some of the
>> layout choices. We don't recommend viewing the HTML file in a browser
>> to look at the layout :)
>>
>> We'd like 225 of each piece.
>>
>> For the paper, we're looking for something in the ivory-buttercup
>> yellow spectrum. We based the layout sizes on standard (I hope)
>> Baronial envelopes -- Lee for the large envelope and Baronial 4 for
>> the reply card. For ink, we were thinking of something like Pantone
>> 5615 (dark green), but a brown or black would be OK as well. I'd like
>> to stress that we are not super picky about either sizes or colors,
>> and as long as there is something close, we'd rather go with something
>> you have in stock than wait for an order to come in.
>>
>> Our names should be in TypoScript 24. Most of the rest of the text is
>> Garamond 14 or 18, except for the numbers in the password, because
>> Garamond zeros look too much like lowercase zeros. Any reasonable
>> distinct zero character should be fine to use instead. We also noticed
>> that you don't have bold-weight Garamond, which we used in our layout.
>> Do you have any suggestions for what we could do instead to make the
>> dates stand out a bit?
>>
>> We grabbed a random image for the APO logo. I assume you have
>> something you can use for that.
>>
>> The border image is meant to stand in for the leafy border pieces that
>> I saw when I visited. We may be really off on the size of those pieces
>> relative to the text, in which case we can adjust our layout
>> accordingly.
>>
>> Jen
