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Style sheet for ST+ Fanzine (1st edition)
See Downloads section for various Templates

For the purposes of this Style sheet all measurements will be in mm with the width measurement shown first followed by the height where appropriate. Please stick to all measurements as submissions exceeding the stated measurements will not be used.

The Fanzine will be A5 Portrait....... 148mm x 210mm

The printable area per page.............. 128mm x 185mm

Don’t design across the gutter on a double page spread

The margins are:

Left..............	10mm
Right.............	10mm
Top...............	10mm
Bottom............	15mm	
As standard there will be 3 columns per page. Each column being 40mm wide with a gap of 4mm between each one

ADVERTISEMENTS

The largest size advert allowed is half a page.

Half page (Landscape)................      128mm x 90mm
Half page (Portrait).................      61mm x 185mm
Quarter page.........................      61mm x 90mm
For anyone wishing to submit articles for sale in the Small Ads, please keep the number of words to a reasonable length....No War and Peace thank you....(grin)

TEXT

The body text will be 9pt Times Roman, any leading (Spaces between lines ) please keep to a reasonable size...ie No hugh spaces between lines.

Sub Headings should be 9pt Sans Bold (But 9pt Bold Times Roman will do if you don’t have SANS)

All Text is ranged left.

Paragraphes should not be indented but be seperated by a blank line as this style sheet demonstrates

PICTURES and DIAGRAMS

Any format of picture can be submitted but obviously the higher the quality the better.

Don’t forget the magazine will be reproduced in Black and white, so take this in to account when submitting pictures, as dull, wishy washy picture or ones with subtle tones will not reproduce very well at all. All diagrams and line art should be in B/W. You can send in diagrams or pictures on paper for scanning in if there is no other option.

ROUGH WORD COUNT

These figures are only ball park to give you some idea of how many words are need for an article. Obviously you can do as much or as little as you like but, it just means more work for the Team. So if you could take these figures into account when you write, it’ll be very much appreiciated.
One full page without any heading or pictures..... 570 words or 2500 characters
One page with Large Heading No pictures........... 480 words or 2150 characters
One page with Large Heading, one picture.......... 380 words or 1700 characters
One page with Large heading, two pictures......... 290 words or 1300 characters
Obviously you can Half these for half a page and double for 2 pages etc.

You can usually check how many words and characters you’ve done from within your Word processor. Like I said these are rough numbers but should give you some guide line.

GENERAL TIPS

  • Don’t underline any text it looks really naff.
  • Don’t indent paragraphes.
  • Don’t use too many different typeface for your work of art.
  • Nice short catchy headings would be nice saves us making them up.
  • Box outs and stats look good on a page.
  • Diagrams and pictures also look good.
  • White space makes the page look nice, try not to make the page look too busy.
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