AllFam Promotional Postcards!
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lb_leeCheck out these pretty babies my conspirator, Olivia Li, just lettered and risographed! These postcards will be distributed as promotion for the AllFam Kickstarter; the backs still need to be done. (If you want one, you should let me know!) The image is based on the front cover!
Risograph is a specialized form of limited-color printing that has recently been having a sorta hipster chic comeback. Traditional CMYK color printing makes many, many colors by combining various amounts of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This means, however, that certain colors (usually the eyesearingly fluorescent ones) can't really be made. The more you mix colors together, the less intense they become. (If you were ever a kid who mixed your paints together and wondered why mixing blue and yellow made a kinda blah looking green, same principle.)
Risograph, however, uses many different pigments, rather than just mixing four. As a result, the colors it DOES use have a vibrancy and intensity that is instantly recognizable (well, in person) but it can only print one or two at a time at all effectively. And while you can't tell with this small digital image, the details aren't as fine. So in other words, Riso is good for printing a book in one or two eyesearing colors; it's not good for black and white (blurry) or full color (though apparently some people DO print more than two colors on it, but I am baffled by them).
AllFam will not be printed via Riso. But I'm excited to have postcards that way! :D
Risograph is a specialized form of limited-color printing that has recently been having a sorta hipster chic comeback. Traditional CMYK color printing makes many, many colors by combining various amounts of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This means, however, that certain colors (usually the eyesearingly fluorescent ones) can't really be made. The more you mix colors together, the less intense they become. (If you were ever a kid who mixed your paints together and wondered why mixing blue and yellow made a kinda blah looking green, same principle.)
Risograph, however, uses many different pigments, rather than just mixing four. As a result, the colors it DOES use have a vibrancy and intensity that is instantly recognizable (well, in person) but it can only print one or two at a time at all effectively. And while you can't tell with this small digital image, the details aren't as fine. So in other words, Riso is good for printing a book in one or two eyesearing colors; it's not good for black and white (blurry) or full color (though apparently some people DO print more than two colors on it, but I am baffled by them).
AllFam will not be printed via Riso. But I'm excited to have postcards that way! :D
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Date: 2019-06-29 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-06-30 10:44 pm (UTC)Plus Riso paper has a really nice texture to it that I like touching. I might have to keep one for myself. :B
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Date: 2019-07-02 04:17 pm (UTC)I'd LOVE one, if you have enough left over to maybe include one in the backers who pledge! IF you don't or want to use them all for promotional stuff, though, go for it. Getting the word out is more important :)
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Date: 2019-07-02 07:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, I own a Riso book called Queerotica (it's exactly what it sounds like) which is done entirely in hot pink and purple. I truly do think that color scheme via Riso really made it shine in a way that CMYK wouldn't have. However, some folks use Riso (or color in general) just because they feel it's what you need to make your book "pop" so they don't use it effectively, which seems a crying shame.
Once I get my mitts on some, we'll see if I can get one to you! :D And yeah, extras left over are likely to get shoved in envelopes as a perk or something.
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Date: 2019-07-02 09:08 pm (UTC)That hot pink color just can't be gotten in CMYK.
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Date: 2019-07-03 12:38 am (UTC)