Period-accurate menus for film & theatre — the table d’hôte card, the bill of fare, the wine
list, the breakfast door card and the canteen sheet, with the courses, the money and the law of the year on them.
Every house, ship, line and printer is fictional.
Part of Chronotype · Free to use.
Licence for paid productions ·
the research behind it
The card — what the scene needs
Year & country
The house — invented, every time
No real restaurant, hotel, shipping line, railway or printer appears in
this studio, and nothing it makes is fit to be used as a real price list.
The meal — what the kitchen sent up
“# Heading” starts a course. “name | price” prints the price as typed; a name alone gets a price in the money of the year; “name |” prints none. Empty, and the kitchen’s dishes are printed. A change of year keeps what you typed; a new country or a new card starts again.
The printed house style
Ink
Stock
Arrangement — where the type goes
Border
The piece under the name
The rule between courses
Course cuts
The cut that sat beside a course on a good card — a fish
above the poissons, a bird above the rôts. Whichever case you pick the cut still belongs to the
course, and a case the year cannot carry is not offered. All vector, so it survives the PDF.
What the year asks for — and why
For the printer
The PDF carries the card at size with a spot cut plate where a die
matters, and the type embedded. Everything here is vector and offline — this studio makes no network
request at all.
Checks — what an audience could catch
Variants — the same card, several ways
The same piece, several ways, in one pass. Everything you are not
varying is held still, so the “same” design really is the same design.
Print at 100% / actual size, margins none. Every house, ship, line,
printer and estate is invented — see the Checks panel for what dates a card.