22 March 2025
Wondering if I could implement a paragraph styles, text overflow etc stuff and make a basic indesign clone...
23 March 2024
11 April 2025
As book spreads in the typesetting tool I've been working on. The text and title is derived from are.na blocks and I have a function that turns the blocks into book spreads.
I update the current index and refresh to go next or prev.
Live edit mode:
21 April 2025
The typsetter now export imposed spreads (print booklet). If I know which page will be on which sheet, I can consider alt bindings, for instance printing one of the sheets on blue paper and stitching it with an offset of an inch.
I introduced a viewport into the program so it can render this offset page. It handles coloring it and offsetting it while designing. When exported to print, the printer will switch out paper color for the given sheet.
Here is an example comparison of digital view and the printed counterpart.
22 April 2025
I was supposed to make a series of these, to explain the grid-structure, hyphenation, drawing line, overflow, imposition, etc but its 1am and I'm only 3 pages into the first one :)
I guess it's not gonna work out...
23 April 2024
ok back at it. let see what I can finish in the next 3 hours. Crit in 12 hours.
23 April 2025
This is what I showed in crit
3 August 2025
Was working on this tool last semester, and recently need it for another project where I need to make a publication (a menu) where pages are offset vertically and horizontally.
Finally got it all to work together nicely and have a live feedback/ui to change these offsets and quickly test out different possible layouts.
7 September 2025
The software view:
The print:
Just realised there's a mistake in one of the pages... have to figure out how to fix this post fabrication on 40 menus now :)
10 November 2025
A scratch or fructure type software.
Will have a definition tree that can manage scopes, variables and views for certain symbols. And will try to see whats possible with this stuff.
Loops^
20 November 2025
Presented a breakdown of the parts that constitute this publication tool I've been working on. So presented it as a library of functions written down as an interrogation of a typographic vocabulary.
It was super fun. Made some new friends who I'm hoping to work with and excited to talk to :)
The presentation site is visible here:
Home : Doesn't make a lot of sense without me talking over it and interacting with it though..
21 November 2025
About 8000+ words incoming and some images.
Thinking names for the tool.
Pagemaker (already taken,,, adobe will sue)
Bookmaker
