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Book 9: Pirates preview

I cannot wait for a new, hard copy Little Black Book! Will it have Mongoose's typical contemporary groovy art or line art from the 1980s?
I am a PDF-first reader for Mongoose, so LLBs are perfect for my tablet. Well done, mate!
 
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whartung said:
Nice! Keithian pen scratchings!
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yeah, for me that IS what Traveller is: B&W line drawings. For me it allows for more imagination, but it is also nostalgia talking I'm sure. While I do like some of the more recent takes on Traveller art (definitely not all, but art is very personal I feel), it is the old line drawings that draw me in the most and feel like Traveller.
 
I went ahead & pre-ordered and hoping for the best. I've done a quick overview in my blog but have yet to roll up a character to see how that goes. But overall, I liked it and it really seems a lot like the original CT stuff.

only real nitpick is the tables, though attempting to be like the originals, just seem a bit off to me in terms of formatting. Not sure why. though I do like the cascade skills being bold - that is a nice touch. Waiting for the actual physical copy and hoping the quality is there.

And like Sir Brad - eagerly waiting and maybe I can convince my group to let me run Traveller again. Pirates may be a better approach as they felt too constrained by the Imperial law last game we tried.
 
First off let me say I'm going to buy this, probably a couple copies.
I've seen the previews, and the pages look a little off. They type face is a little fainter and thinner, and the page dimensions look a little off.
These previews are a little higher quality, so I feel more confident in posting this, a page from an OG LBB adventure overlaid on a preview page.
I matched the column width, and lined them up using the page number as an alignment mark.
As I mentioned, there seems to be a difference in the font, the OG seems bolder, and the spacing line spacing on the new one seems a little tighter than the OG.
After I get a physical copy in hand I'll see how it compares to the older ones I have.
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Don McKinney told me once that the font in Classic Traveller was Univers 55.

I've found that BT Zurich Roman at 8.5 point in Microsoft Word is visually identical to the font in The Traveller Book.

Univers was created by Adrian Frutiger in Zurich, Switzerland in 1957.

Which is why we see clones of Univers called Zurich and Frutiger.

All of them should be somewhat interchangeable, except maybe in boldness and italicizing.

The Pirates book really just looks to need to be a bit bolder or a heavier print thickness. The line spacing might only be o.01 off from the LLBs.
 
I'd always heard Optima, and it's pretty close.
But Univers 55 looks closer. It could be just a little bolder, and a couple of the letters might be a little off, like the top of the T is a little thin. But that could be down to the font package differing from the typesets that were probably used back in the day.
 
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