Basic Book Design

& Margins For bound books 6″x 9″ (15cm x 23cm) or smaller, use 0.5″ (1.27cm) margins on the top, outside and bottom of books, and a 0.75″ (1.91cm) inside margin. For 8.5″x11″ (21.59cm x 27.94cm) documents (bound or unbound), use 1-inch margins. Adjust margins, font size, and columns to produce 65-70 characters per line (including Read More …

Calculate Spine Width

Spine Width & Weight Calculator Spine Width & Weight Calculator for Perfect/PUR Bound Books. Use the link below to calculate the spine width and weight of your books. Calculator It will open in a new page.

Book Mechanics 101

How to calculate book length A book’s extent depends on the type of work that it is. You are unlikely to encounter a brief Encyclopedia of World History, nor should you meet a 1,000-page Introduction to the Works of Jane Austen (though sadly this sort of thing does happen). If you analyse the contents of a typical bookshelf in Read More …

Learning

Sublimation and Cutting with Cricut and Silhouette to name the popular cutters is a great pastime and a really great way to make a few dollars as a hobby, or as a full-time business, so where do you get the materials to design what you want? Well for a start, you can look on DesignCuts Read More …