Guidelines for Your Cover

Learn how to create a compelling cover for your work by following these essential guidelines and tips.

Written by Julia Ant

Updated at August 21st, 2025

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Cover Guidelines: Cover Dimensions: Pre-Designed Covers

Cover Guidelines:

Any text that you want on your cover should be within the purple safety zone. Any text outside the safety zone may be cut off.

If you have a background, it should be pulled all the way out to the red bleed line.

The blue lines in the center of the page represent your spine. If you would like to add text to your spine, add a text box to your page. Once your text box is on the page, select it so the blue circles appear around it.

Type the text that you want on the spine. Then, rotate the text box by clicking on the larger blue dot that is slightly extended from the text box and dragging the dot around to rotate the box.

Rotate your school name so that the bottom of the title sits on the left side of the spine (shown below). This will ensure that the spine will exist in the proper direction on your cover.

Cover Dimensions:

You can find your specific cover dimensions while on the ladder in the detail section next to the cover preview.

*Please Note your cover dimensions will differ based on your cover type and page count. Please consult your account manager if you are designing your cover in a different software and need assistance with your cover size.

Pre-Designed Covers

If you do not want to spend a lot of time and energy designing your own cover, we have a library of Pre-Designed covers that you can choose from for your yearbook project. To view the backgrounds specifically designed for covers, first select “elements”