I've been working away on the recipes/ingredient of books... book
I still have to import in the 1 to 1 ratio example page layouts of the paragraph and grep styles listed on the given book "ingredient label" I decided to add the actual fonts used in each book to each label. Transcribing the paragraph styles took much longer than expected as I couldn't find a way to copy and paste them from the Paragraph Styles settings tab in InDesign.
I think I found a solution for a cover or dust jacket image to go with the ingredients motif without using book interiors.
I photographed, then grayscaled our household ingredient cards with all their mistakes and blemishes and collaged them at 60% transparency before of setting two sets at 5% on top. After adding temporary title text I felt the text needed to stand out more and added a layer of white at 10% between the image and text to avoid needing a color bar or a drop shadow.
The original plan was to print this book as a square 8.5in or 9in that would allow me to have a 1 to 1 representation of pages examples in the book, most examples would intentionally bleed off the bottom of the page. After seeing the booklet printed at 5" I'm reconsidering the size, but keep the proportions of text and example page bleeding off intact. The purpose of the book is not so much to read the text but get a feel of what the layouts and typography combination look and feel like on a page.
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