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Font Talk on Hedonic.ink

John | September 13, 2024

While searching for something else, I came across this post on hedonic.ink about font choices for TTRPGs (May 2021). It’s actually a series of four posts, and I haven’t combed through each yet since I’m not pining for a new font at this particular moment, but I wanted to share it so that maybe more…

Paint Filters with FotoSketcher

John | September 13, 2024

I just discovered a desktop program, FotoSketcher, that runs images through an automated process to add a paint-like effect to them. The result is similar to Photoshop filters (at least as I remember them existing probably a couple decades ago when I last used PS), but FotoSketcher is free, even for commercial use. It works…

Why is the first line all small caps?

John | August 15, 2024

Occasionally this question pops up on the /r/homebrewery subreddit or in Discord: “I don’t want my first sentence to have all caps, how do I remove it?”. The default D&D 5e theme for any new Homebrewery document includes this styling for the first line of the first paragraph after a top level “H1” header, which…

How to Fix Blank White Space at the Bottom

John | July 21, 2024

Are you trying to create a PDF from your Homebrewery document, and finding a ~1 inch blank white space at the bottom of the page? Likely it is because your Print settings are set to output an A4 size page, and the Homebrewery is set to default to a U.S. Letter page size. You have…

Heavy Pages

John | September 25, 2023

Quick housekeeping note: I turned off comments on the blog because it was 100% spam. Likely if you are here, you have received the link actually from me through discord or similar…comment there.