Need to shrink space between title and top of page in customized page setup

Question

I am using a customised set-up as shown below for my title and need some help reducing the space between the top of the page and the "title" which in my case is defined by a "chapter" environment.

    \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
    \usepackage[margin=0.75in]{geometry}
    \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{amsfonts}
    \usepackage{amssymb}
    \usepackage{multicol}
    \usepackage{titling}

    \usepackage{xcolor}
    \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}

    \setlength\columnsep{50pt}
    \setlength{\droptitle}{-5pt}
    \author{The Doctor}
    \title{\textbf{Mirko Vosk EDH}}


    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \titleformat{\chapter}
      {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\fontfamily{uncl}\selectfont\filcenter}{}    {0em}{#1}

    \titleformat{\section}
      {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\fontfamily{pbk}\selectfont\color{red}\filcenter}{}{0em}{#1}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \begin{document}
    \chapter{``Rush of the Wild" R/G \, Aggro}

    \begin{multicols}{2}
    \section*{``Base" Creatures=04}
        \begin{itemize}
            \item 02 Rakdos Cackler (B/R) [2/2]
            \item 02 Kalonian Tusker (GG) [3/3]
        \end{itemize}

    \end{document}

I would like for the document to be one page without changing my margins and shrink the space between title and top of page. Thanks!

Since you're using \chapter, you can follow the instructions in How to decrease spacing before \chapter title? — Werner, Dec 26 '16 at 18:50
Yes Werner, that does actually work with some modification. Just a couple of additional questions: 1) How can I reduce the spacing between that "chapter" title and the beginning of the text (or would I need to begin another request for help for that? And 2) should I "answer my own question now with a new MWE that more specifically shows what I accomplished? Thanks! — Michael Dykes, Dec 26 '16 at 19:47
Your MWE does not incorporate the use of \maketitle. Is that intentional? You can edit your MWE in this question any time, to replace the MWE by a more targeting one. — Jan, Dec 26 '16 at 19:50
@MichaelDykes: Look into the \titlespacing command of titlesec. — Werner, Dec 26 '16 at 20:05

Bernard · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-26T19:27:34.583

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Is this what you want?

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
    \usepackage[margin=0.75in, showframe]{geometry}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{amsfonts}
    \usepackage{amssymb}
    \usepackage{multicol}

    \usepackage{xcolor}
    \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
    \usepackage{lipsum}
    \setlength\columnsep{50pt}
    \author{The Doctor}
    \title{\textbf{Mirko Vosk EDH}}


    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     \titleformat{\chapter}
      {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\fontfamily{uncl}\selectfont\filcenter}{} {0em}{#1}
    \titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-2ex}{8ex}

    \titleformat{\section}
      {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\fontfamily{pbk}\selectfont\color{red}\filcenter}{}{0em}{#1}
    \titleformat{name=\section, numberless}
      {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\fontfamily{pbk}\selectfont\color{red}\filcenter}{}{0em}{#1}
    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \begin{document}
    \chapter{``Rush of the Wild" R/G \, Aggro}

    \begin{multicols}{2}
    \section*{``Base" Creatures=04}
    \lipsum[1]
        \begin{itemize}
            \item 02 Rakdos Cackler (B/R) [2/2]
            \item 02 Kalonian Tusker (GG) [3/3]
        \end{itemize}
    \lipsum[2-4]
    \end{multicols}

    \end{document}

edited Dec 26 '16 at 19:27

answered Dec 26 '16 at 17:01

Bernard

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May I know what's wrong with this answer? – Bernard Dec 26 '16 at 19:30
This seems like guesswork... – Werner Dec 26 '16 at 19:35
I only interpreted the question title in a sensible way, waiting for some feedback from the question author… – Bernard Dec 26 '16 at 19:52
On the first glance, I can't see, what you have changed and why. – Jan Dec 26 '16 at 19:53
I only added lipsum, because the itemize alone seemed quite weird in a two-column environment. – Bernard Dec 26 '16 at 19:55
@Bernard: That's what comments can be used for... asking for clarification. – Werner Dec 26 '16 at 20:06
@Jan: Oh, and w.r.t. the O.P., I used \titlespacing*. – Bernard Dec 26 '16 at 20:47
Though without the lines around the entire document and above it and all that looks fine thanks. !!! – Michael Dykes Dec 31 '16 at 20:46
@MichaelDykes: The lines are here to help visualise the position of the title w.r.t. the margins. For a real document, just remove the [showframe] option of geometry. – Bernard Dec 31 '16 at 21:04

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