[6533] in APO Printshop
Re: Wedding Invitation Design Draft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jen Selby)
Wed Apr 11 14:32:07 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAPkrFhcruaLqmuQcdCBurJ25hxRc9KiMP6YK6wb+2ZpfX6G72Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:32:04 +0000
From: Jen Selby <jenselby@gmail.com>
To: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Martin <nim@nimlabs.org>, apo-printshop@mit.edu
Classic cream sounds perfect.
If the Bob Slate option is fairly easy, I would lean more toward that,
but modifying the text layout to fit within the embossed panels is OK,
too.
Thanks again!
YiLFS,
Jen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> Hi
>
> I took a look at what paper we have in stock in the office. We can
> definitely do this run with what's in stock, with modifications.
>
> First of all, we don't have enough of anything in ivory, but we do have
> plenty of "classic cream" =A0It's slightly more yellow than ivory but not=
what
> I would call a butter yellow.
>
> Second, on sizing. We have just shy of 200 4-bar plain cards. We 250 4-ba=
r
> panel cards, which have an embossed center. The margins are a half inch o=
n
> all four sides, and by some rough calculations, the text for your reply c=
ard
> won't fit without adding a line break to the first option or using smalle=
r
> text.
>
> For the Lee, we have 250 each of the plain and panel-- these with a 5/8 i=
nch
> border on all sides. =A0I could do the first page (with the leafy border)=
on
> the plain card, and squeeze down the information card to fit within the
> panel margins. =A0This would mean removing some of the vertical space bet=
ween
> lines and adjusting the line breaks in the center paragraph with hotel
> information.
>
> We also have 4-bar folders, with the embossed panel on the front, but a
> plain, unembossed inside page and plain Lee folders. So another option is=
to
> put the reply text and invitation on the insides of folders, and have the
> reception information on a panel.
>
> Or, since it will take at least two days to set and lock up the type, one=
of
> us could go buy non-panel cards and matching envelopes from Bob Slate or
> somewhere else nearby.
>
> Let me know what you want to do, and I'll start with setting the invitati=
on
> card, which can't go on an embossed panel in any case, and the envelopes.
>
> YiLFS
>
> Benazeer
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:51 AM, 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
>
>
