Not to get too woke, but is the problem name "Jap Girls Don’t Date Lepers" not a tad racist? It stuck out a bit when I was looking through it. In light of current movements (e.g. https://gripped.com/news/ending-colonialist-and-racist-place-and-route-names/) this may be a chance to rethink the name of such problems.
Awesome feedback folks - really really appreciate this (and yes, that name is a bit anomalous so could easily be updated - as I recall, it was a slur on one of the guys inability to pull a certain young lady the night before, which he attributed to a bad case of sunburn / peeling skin )the V? relate to problems I need to go back out and check or lines I've spotted that may not have been climbed yet (did a bunch of them last night to start finishing things off). Will be a thorough check to make sure none of these slip through the cracks and stay when I eventually go to print
Re fonts / layout - my advice would be to pick a really clear sans serif for the cover / headings, etc like Helvetica / Univers / Neue Haas Unica. Futura would work well too. Then use a nice serif for the body text - I use Sabon for almost everything like this. The latter is more legible / nicer to read, and feels a bit less cold than setting everything in sans serif.I’d love to design a guidebook one day - it’s the maps and diagrams that freak me out. The ones in the Font Straight Ups guides must’ve been so much work...
After 16-years sitting on my arse I've decided it's about time I updated the bouldering guide for Hong Kong. As such, i'm looking for some inspiration in terms of guide 'style' and format. Any recommendations on quality guides already out there that are stylish, functional etc. and I can 'borrow' ideas from? Couple of examples of current working formats included here (with one UKB star currently filling a few photo spots until I get some good pics of the young local lads crushing) - note these are still working drafts so include an abundance of typo's etc still:https://hongkongclimbing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ShekO.pdfhttps://hongkongclimbing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HaFaShan.pdf
Just don't use what 3 words for directions!
Quote from: SA Chris on September 18, 2020, 08:33:57 amJust don't use what 3 words for directions!Why not Chris?
I'm intrigued as there's been a bit of a move towards using W3W for emergency rescue. I was just on some working at height / rescue training and the general feeling was that it was a sensible move to use W3W as it cuts down the chances of error.
Whilst I agree with many of the arguments against W3W, some of them are irrelevant to use in a UK bouldering guide. There is no denying the utility of the system in some context. My preference would be for a guide to have the W3W location plus the LatLong coordinates, such that you get the utility of W3W whilst being futureproofed against any moves to paywall W3W.
W3W isn't really widespread for use in HK - I had to google what the hell you guys were all talking about for it t make any sense to me