#quarto

By The Still Waters by orphan_account

2025 was my first year as a @renegadeguild member and it was also the first year I took part in the annual Renegade Bindery gift exchange! This exchange is where we typeset and handbind a book as a gift for other members of the discord. Now all the pictures and typesets have been released, and now that my giftee (@kolutshanpress) has received the book I am able to share!

By The Still Waters is a really lovely Fenris/Hawke Dragon Age: Inquisition fic, I bound this fic blind and I had a blast doing so. I ended up making three copies of the fic, one for my giftee, one for my sister-in-law (who helped with the dragon age vibes as I knew nothing), and one for me because I loved the story so much.

I have to hugely thank the artist @kisunaexe for their gracious permission to use their art of Fenris and Hawke on the front and back cover of the bind. The cover was designed in Canva, printed on matte photo paper, and covered in soft touch laminate for protection. It is a little hard to see but the spine has ripples on it to mimic water. I really love how it all came together in the end.

For the title fonts, I used Asul and Inquisition Small Caps Normal from (or close to fonts from) the series to link the bind back to Dragon Age.

The chapter heading art is a recreation Fenris's chest tattoos, given how significant they are to the story. This was recreated with direct reference to concept art/screenshots from the series. I have done few colour typesets so wanted to have a go with a simple one to get me started here.

The spine has an oxford hollow for stability, and a rounded spine.

Bind #43 Old Gods, New Tricks by @bootsnblossoms & @kryptaria Date Completed: 12/27/2025 Size: Quarto.  217 pages, 34,631 words

Summary: As MI6's senior quartermaster, Q is accustomed to dealing with all manner of oddities. But an agent who won't stay dead, a bomb in his office, and bad tea all combine to make for a stressful day. The muggers on the way home only make matters worse. And that's before the owl shows up.

I typeset this fic towards the end of summer and didn’t get around to binding it until now, which actually worked well since the story has a winter setting.  Centaur for the bodyfont, WoodGods for the titles, and an owl dingbat for some minimal decoration. 

Pretty standard bind overall.  Cover papers are some paste paper I made this summer and I had to cut the endpapers twice because apparently I can’t measure.

2008 Honda Civic Manual 328 pages Completed February 2, 2023

Not a fic binding - a couple years ago I got sick of not having the manual to my car except in PDF form, so I hand-imposed the pages and made essentially a landscape-mode quarto! And there was only one choice for the endpapers, obviously.

Imposition notes and my mistake under the cut :D Still not sure how that happened.

AQ by x_los is a fic I adore, and I have wanted to bind it for ages! I had a very specific vision for how I wanted this bind to turn out, and I'm happy to say it worked out how I wanted it to. I wanted to do a cutout Star Trek insignia showing through to the title, which I applied in heat transfer vinyl to glalaxy paper.

I took a photo from the Hubble telescope, (thanks NASA!), and used Procreate to draw it into the command insignia. There was probably an easier way! but this worked.

I also figured out how to make the headers/page numbers go sideways on the typeset and am delighted with how it came out.

I also found a dingbat font I could use to put the insignia in scene breaks, which I definitely did at every opportunity.

I really loved the dark rainbow heat transfer vinyl, so I added an insignia to the endpaper and the back cover, because I could.

Propagande Scapin : Je n'ai absolument aucune excuse au pourquoi du comment, mais je me souviens très distinctement avoir eu un énorme attrait pour ce personnage au collège (genre 6e) quand on a lu la pièce. 🫣