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Fancy first letters

An initial capital or initial cap is when the  first letter on a page is bigger

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Getting started

Ask yourself two things before you start your design work: 1. What kind of story is

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A story comes to life!

The sketch worked wonderfully, so Scoble the illustrator elf went on to do a final drawing,

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Adding in art

Now that I’ve settled on the two typefaces for the story text and the background parchment,

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Finding the theme

From the first time I read Zobelia’s story pages for the new story, One-der, I loved

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