#crimson rivers typeset

[lifeonmarls]

Crimson Rivers typeset: books and their covers

fic by @mayzarbewithyou on ao3

art by @/likeafunerall on ig

typeset by me 😁

volume one is finished i'm still working on the other two since i want to make sure it's perfect i added everything in THIS drive doc 🫶🏼🫶🏼

This typeset is just for the first 25 chapters since i'm splitting up the fic in 3 books so 25 chapters for each volume !

feel free to use these at your own leisure , please send me a picture! i would love to see how they turn out 💘

some pictures to show how some of my favourite pages look like✨

[moonycigs]

Here are my covers for Crimson Rivers by Zeppazariel ! I wanted them to be similar to the og hunger games covers where each book has its own color. Divided into 3 parts bc I didn’t know we were splitting it into 5 until I was pretty much already done sooo…

[chasingregulus]

So, I decided I hate the old crimson rivers covers I made, so I redid them 😋

The ones from before don’t look awful, and I was really just basing it all around that skull drowning in blood picture (it was horrendous to try and find reddish pictures that all matched). I do think the old covers kinda captures the vibe of CR more, but this just looks all together better to me ☺️

I haven’t properly sized them to print for lulu, I’ve done B&N since that’s what I use. If enough people ask me for the lulu version i’ll do it <3

[ifyoucandaniel]

Also I picked up bookbinding just so I could bind all of zars fics and Now that CR is officially almost over that means I have to finish the books and it’s making me anxious and not in a fun way 😭

[tentaclecats]

just finished my coverart set for my binding of crimson rivers (volume one) :] still working on my typeset for it but i thought id share this idk

[vellichorbindery]

Do you mind if I ask for your typeset in a dm?

Nope not at all! As long as it’s for personal use I’m happy to share mine. The only ones I do not share are Crimson Rivers & Just Lovers.

Dm me with your email and I can send you the file 💖

[ari-strology]

I'm currently working on my own typesetting of Crimson Rivers so I can bind it by hand, but MY GOD TRYING TO DELETE ALL THE BLANK LINES IS INFURIATING.

[aystoria]

i am trying my hand at bookbinding starting with one of my favorite shorter, aka 55k, fics and just the typeset is hard to do 😭

my final boss, so to speak, is crimson rivers so pray for me

[jeongkuk]

Hi I wanted to ask, would you ever consider doing other covers and typesets for other marauders fics? Such as art heist baby and crimson rivers, etc etc? I think a lot of us would be very interested!

hi, thanks for asking! at the moment i'm only planning on making typesets/covers for fics that i a) have read and b) would like to print out myself, just because there's so much effort and time that goes into making them for fics (esp since marauders fics tend to be so long). that being said, i've already started working on covers and typesets for this (since i'm absolutely IN LOVE with it):

;) coming soon

ps for anyone who wants to dm me about crimson rivers pls do this fic has fully ruined my life in the best way possible and i need to talk about it >:(

[chasingregulus]

Crimson Rivers typesets

Here is the link to the google drive where I have all four volumes of Crimson Rivers, the are NOWHERE near perfect, but the typesets I’ve seen other people make are a total of 3 books, and i personally don’t like having tiny words in the books😭 my AHB font size was bigger but i think this sizing is better than the AHB one <3 for reference: the dimensions of the book is 5.5x8.5 which for comparison is similar to the side of “it ends with us” by Colleen Hoover.

ALSO.

I did make a slight change to a couple of the outfits in Volume 4, i changed it to match how i would’ve envisioned it <3

And lastly, if you want perfection, i do not recommend these😭 i just copy and pasted and then formatted, plus im way too lazy to proof read the entire 800k word fic💀

Anyways🥱 i think my covers are way better than the typesets, ill be posting the link to those once I’ve sized them properly, if you want to see what it’ll look like in general, it on my other post <3

[chasingregulus]

Ok so i actually started typesetting crimson rivers, any typesets that i make do not expect them to be perfect at all😭 i try to make them good but i really am just copy and pasting and then like doing font stuff! I’ve done chapters 1-24 (which is volume 1 with around 700 pages) and im planning on doing volume 2 today! I don’t think it’ll take me as long as i thought it would so hopefully I’ll have it done by Sunday!

I made the covers that I’ll be using for my books they’re not perfect by any means but i like them enough 🥱

I think that there’ll be 4 total books, the fonts is pretty small compared to my ahb typesets but i don’t think it’s THAAT small, its size 10, and i think i used 12 or 13 for ahb

Anyways, lmk what you think about them I’m not fully set on them so i might make a few edits <3

[chasingregulus]

Crimson Rivers book covers!

OKAY

After much wait, here are the resized covers for lulu, b&n covers are still not done😭

EDIT: B&N covers are up now <3

Also, if you live in the US, i highly HIGHLY recommend using b&n its like 20$ cheaper than lulu

I also changed the cover for V4, i didn’t like it very much before <3

Anyways:

[ifyoucandaniel]

Alright! So I finished hand binding Crimson Rivers by @mayzarbewithyou :) this was my first time bookbinding so excuse the mistakes I am far from great, but all in good time! This fic basically changed the trajectory of my life so I thought I’d give it the love it deserves! the spine is regulus standing looking up at the tree and he is purposely put on the last book because he finally learned how to climb and grow. I’m so emotional over the end of the fic so this is very emotional to me. I did the typeset myself and there are some cool details I’ll try to put in another post, but basically I added all of Zar’s end notes as footnotes to the specific scenes he talks about! All very fun and the dingbats match the theme for the books and the backs each have quotes the correspond. I split it into 5 just because it didn’t feel right to have the epilogues in the same book as the war. They were two completely different parts of the story so I separated them. Anyways I’ll make another post. This was a labor of love and I hope I did it Justice :)