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Crown Quarto, two sizes to compare, and the cast as characters

The editor, Dinis Cruz, in the conductor's session (conductor@book.the-ultimate-insider), 31 October 2026, about 22:30 to 23:20 UTC, after reading the ten-page sample in the lab's look. Kept here as he gave it. Never edited; where it turns out to be wrong, the finding goes in BRIEF-CORRECTIONS.md.

That new version of the PDFs is MUCH better

What is the page size? Crown Quatro?

That font size still looks to big

The conductor answered: the sample is 6 x 9 in; Crown Quarto (7.44 x 9.69 in) was his choice relayed from the designer's session, not yet signed (P2); and offered two builds at Crown Quarto to compare: A, a 9.5 pt body, 18 pt headings, 11 pt boxes, captions and call-outs at 9 pt; B, a 9 pt body with the rest stepped down to his floor of 9 pt. He answered, with a screenshot of the sample's page 7 (team/conductor/editor-briefs/img/editor-note-cast-page-7.png):

Those sizes are good , let's see what they look like

I really like this team characters , pic1 (btw can you see how big that text is) , can you ask the team to create a full personality and design for each one? Making it funny and interesting). Basically imagine that each one is a character and persona in this book

We could then also use them to help explaining the story and what happened

Can you ask the team to experiment this design and presentation mode an£ story telling?

Does this make sense?

How the conductor reads it (not his words)

P2, signed: Crown Quarto ("Those sizes are good" answers the question that offered Crown Quarto with sizes A and B). The gutter stays as relayed (0.625 in).
Sizes A and B: built at Crown Quarto for him to compare; neither is chosen yet.
The screenshot: the cast drawing's labels print larger than the body text beside them. Drawings in the book keep their text at or below the body size.
CH1, signed as an experiment: each of the talk's nine agents (conductor, storyteller, researcher, deck, dev, designer, motion, ruv-sgit, studio) becomes a character with a full personality and design, funny and interesting, grounded in what each really did; the characters then help tell the story of the day. The team experiments with the design, the presentation and the storytelling, and shows him.
The guard rails: they are characters of AI agents, not of people; nothing attack-shaped; no real person caricatured; the editor appears only as himself, and only with his go.