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[Guide] Typesetting
This is not going to be a tutorial, itd be just a guide on how we want you to typeset for us. If youre a newbie in typesetting, other
groups, like DP, ForeverMore (mainly sfx), RedHawk , and Senbonzakura, have provided tutorials on them already. Head over those
links to learn more about the art of typesetting.

What do you need?

Photoshop (the most recent, the better)


Creativity
Patience
Perseverance
FONTS

Creativity is self-explanatory but why do you need to have patience too? Typesetting can exhaust you and sfx will test your
patience. You need to persevere to finish the whole doujinshi, especially the long ones (~70 pages).

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Font Template (name (font style), size, color, anti-alias, text effect)

Speech
CC Wild Words Int (Roman), 8pt (1300px height) or 9pt (1500px height), Black, Smooth
Loud Speech
CC Wild Words Int (Bold Italic), 9pt to 12pt, Black, Smooth
Thoughts Inside Bubbles, Narration Inside Boxes, Thoughts/Narration Outside Bubbles/Boxes
CC Astro City Int (Italic), 8pt (1300px height) or 9pt (1500px height), Black, Smooth
Phone Speech
CreativeBlock BB, 10pt, Black, Smooth
Small Texts
SwaggerBold, 12pt (11pt Vertical Spacing), Black, Smooth
Hand of Sean, 10pt to 12pt, Black Smooth
Notes
Zud Juice (Bold), 10pt, Black, Smooth
Moans
A little pot, A Safe Place to Fall, Aarons Hand, Bring the noize, CARO, Rambo Killer, Royfont, Elisana, mince
SFX (You can use other fonts, these are just examples)
aaaiight!, Akbar, Another, AhnberHand, Alphahate, Baloney, Bearpaw, Bolide, BranchingMouse Becker, Cataclysmic,
Christopherhand, Comiccity, Crazy Killer, Daniel, dickhop, Doktor terror, Edo, Edo SZ, Faraco Hand, Fighting Spirit TBS, In
his hands, Inkburrow, KBwhenpigsfly, PinkClouds, Shipwreck, Smudger LET, Zachary

For cutesy texts or pained speech, find something suitable. You can go to dafont.com to download more fonts. Also, youre not
restricted to the above sfx and moan fonts, you can use others but they must fit the scenario or the action. For yelling, you can
use other fonts too like Yikes.

Things to remember:

Check the script for ellipse glyphs. Convert them all to three consecutive dots.
Highlight one occurrence of the ellipse glyph
press CTRL+H
input three consecutive dots in the Replace with: field.
press Replace All

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Check the script for !?. They should be converted to ?!.


Check the mode (Image > Mode) of the image, it must be in grayscale. Set it to grayscale if it isnt.
Check the resolution of the image, it must be 110. Set it to 110 if it isnt. (Ctrl + I or Image Resize, (important) put 110 on the
resolution box first, then 1300 or 1500 or 1600 etc (depends on whats the height of the cleaned page) to the height box)
Speeches, thoughts, and narrations should be centered in the bubbles or boxes.
Speeches, thoughts, and narrations should follow the shape of the bubble or box. Avoid the hourglass-shape.
There are no tilde ~ and other special characters in CC Wild Words Int so you have to highlight them and set the font to
Anime Ace 2.0 BB or New Wild Words.
If your small text or sfx is on top of a line art or background art, use a white stroke of 2.
If the background of the text is all black, make the text white not black.
Hyphenate in proper places. Avoid hyphenation if it isnt necessary.
If the text is too big for a bubble or box, ask the proofer to shorten it OR decrease the font size.
Dont let the text touch the borders of the bubbles or boxes.
If the text is patterned, make it patterned (check the ForeverMore tutorial on how to do it).
All sfx must be in lowercase except if the font is in all caps.
Be creative and be mindful of the size of your sfx.

You can download the fonts here: link


You can download the patterns here: link

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