Hi, I’m Sam Feldstein. I’m an amateur web developer and a bookseller at Composition Shop in Longmont, CO.
I built this app partly to be helpful, but mostly for practice. It’s pretty simple, and offers some customization, but if you want full control over your shelf-talker, you’re better off using graphic design software like Canva or Figma.
If you have questions or feedback, just shoot me an email.
Basics
This app is easier to use on a desktop, but it should work fine on your smartphone.
Card sizes on the webpage do not correlate to card sizes on the printed page. That’s because the card sizes on the webpage morph to fit different screens.
Any changes you make are stored automatically in the browser, so you can pick up where you left off.
Hit Cmd/Ctrl + P to print, or click Print.
Font
Enter the name of any font installed on your device, or pick one from Google Fonts. Once you’ve entered a name, the font will automatically apply to your talkers.
Logo
By default, the logo will take up as much space as it needs and no more. There are no fancy rules in place to warn you if the logo is too big and bleeding off the card, so it’s on you to notice if that’s happening. The preview card should make this issue easy to avoid.
If you add a logo but it doesn’t appear the next time you open the app, it’s probably because the image file is too big. Most browsers won’t let you store a file bigger than 5 MB. Your logo file probably isn’t bigger than that, but if it is, you can always Squoosh it.
Printing should work fine out of the box, but if anything looks funny, check the following:
- Set the page orientation to Landscape
- Hide headers and footers
- Set margins to Default
The app will not tell you if your cards are too big for the page, or if a card’s content is overflowing its borders, or anything like that. Make sure you preview the printed page before you print.
Privacy
This app’s code is open source, meaning you can see everything that’s going on under the hood.
Your shelf-talker data is stored in your browser. Nobody can see it except you.
The app loads fonts with Google Fonts, which can expose your IP address and other information to Google. This may be a concern for some people.
Credits
- Cormorant Garamond font by Christian Thalmann
- Grusskarten Gotisch font by Typographer Mediengestaltung
- Arrow icons by Font Awesome
- Hosted by Cloudflare
- Built with Astro and Vue