However, you should still maintain proper gutters, along the spine to avoid losing copy in the natural curve of the book. This gives you a bit more flexibility for images, as they can flow right through the fold. When laying out a centrefold spread, you now have twice the page area to work with. Use headers at regular intervals to identify main ideas or lane changes/segues in the copy. However, they do provide visual interest and keep the reader’s attention.
Print copy headings don’t follow the same rules as online copy, which are usually optimized for search engines.Your body copy should be no bigger than 11pt to best use the page.
The smallest font size we can comfortably read is 8pt but in some cases, smaller is doable. I like to use at least two columns for longer copy with a ¼” gutter. Remember we’ve trained our eyes to read top left to bottom right and your content should flow the same way. Set your page up properly for print: make sure it has ⅛” bleed on all sides and set up margins to be ¼” on all sides. The centrefold gives you a full page of real estate smack dab in the middle of the book. Right at the centre of the book, there will be one complete page. When printing, all the other pages are not continuous – the other half of the page is in the other half of the book. CentrefoldĪs you know, books and magazines are often created by stacking paper and folding it. The term gutters is also used to describe the white space between two columns. The gutter refers to the inside margins closest to the spine of a book or the blank space between two facing pages in the centre of a book. It is the blank border on each side of the print on a page and protects the print from being trimmed off during production. The margin does not go as close to the edge of the page as the bleed. The bleed is the part on the side of a document that gives the printer a small amount of space to account for movement of the paper, and design inconsistencies. In other words, the bleed is the area to be trimmed off. In printing, bleed is printing that goes beyond the edge of where the sheet will be trimmed. I’ve created a video tutorial on Skillshare to walk you through creating a centrefold, but before you get started, let’s review some basic terms: Bleed Using InDesign to lay out your document will give you more territory on the page and more flexibility with your copy and images, facilitating a better quality print. It’s desktop publishing and typesetting software that allows you to create pages with edge-to-edge colour and type, like you’d find in a magazine. A publication designed with InDesign laying on a desk with a cup of coffee.Īnyone can type out a document in Word, but the savvy up their game with Adobe’s InDesign.
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