LEAF
a zine machine by Jacobs & 5th — St. Louis
YOUR OWN
ZINE.
No publisher. No photobook company. No waiting for permission. Leaf turns your photographs into a stapled, print-ready zine in an afternoon.
Made here
Your best pictures are sitting in a folder. They deserve a feed deserve paper. Staples, ink, something you can hand to someone. That's the whole idea.
Camera roll to staples.
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Pick a style
Five styles, each built for a kind of photograph, with its own paper, type, and layouts.
2
Dump your photos in
Upload, crop, reorder. Leaf lays out the spreads. Change anything you want.
3
Print it
Download the PDF and take it anywhere, or send it to us and we'll get it printed in St. Louis.
Five styles. Pick your noise.
Each style is a finished design. You bring the pictures and a few words. The type, margins, and page order are already worked out.
Contact
street / documentary
Contact-sheet look. Tight margins, plain type, the frames do the talking.
Dispatch
photojournalism
One photograph per spread, a caption under each. Built for the decisive moment.
Frame
studio / portrait
One portrait per page on cool, quiet margins. The sitter holds the frame.
Field
landscape / place
Wide frames on bone paper, big margins. For travel and the long walk.
Private
family / home
Small pictures on cream paper, a note beside each one. For the work you keep.
Built for a real print shop.
5.5 × 8.5
inches, saddle-stitched
300 DPI
every page at print resolution
STL
printed locally when you order through us
⅛" bleed
crop marks included
Book a shoot. Get a zine.
Every Jacobs & 5th session comes with a zine of your photographs, made in Leaf. Want it printed? Say the word.
Questions
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No. Leaf runs in your browser, and your photographs stay on your computer while you work.
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Yes. The PDF follows standard print specs, with bleed and crop marks, so any print shop can run it. Even the copy shop down the street.
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[Fill in the real range, e.g. around 12 to 24 for a short zine.]
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[Fill in the local print turnaround once confirmed.]
Stop scrolling. Start stapling.
Leaf is made in St. Louis by Jacobs & 5th. Photocopy freely.