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The Best Book Templates for Adobe InDesign

Grace Fussel — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 11:45:22 +0000

Create beautiful books effortlessly with these stylish InDesign book templates for cookbooks, novels, lookbooks and photobooks. Whether you’re creating a print or eBook for a fiction or non-fiction book, these templates will help you get started on the right foot.

Scroll down to discover a selection of free and paid-for templates that will help you turn that manuscript into a beautiful book for print or digital.

Dessert cookbook Envato Elements

Dessert Cookbook is one of the most beautiful, minimalist InDesign book templates ever! Perfect for cookbooks, but also quite lovely for editorial projects. Featuring 18 editable pages, icons, font list, and preview files, this one’s ready for print at A4 size.

Atmos multi-purpose book Envato Elements

Atmos is a multi-purpose book InDesign template that’s ready for print or digital. Gorgeous layouts are perfect for magazine, proposals, catalogs, or portfolios. Includes 18 pages at A4 size, ready to go, just change photos and text!

Recipe Book Template (FREE)

A free book template from InDesignSkills, this recipe book has a contemporary, minimal style that can be adapted for bakery, fine dining or simple home cookery. Complete with 7 stylish spreads, this is a great foundation for creating your own recipe book design.

Modern neutral multi-purpose book Envato Elements

Looking for a free book template InDesign that has a “hygge” feel? Check out the Modern Neutral multi-purpose book template with soft neutral colors, vectors, and more – perfect for portfolios, proposals, magazines, and so much more. There’s a bonus file that includes 100 furniture icons, too!

Furniture and Household Lookbook Gallery Booklet Envato Elements

The Furniture and Household Look Book indesign template is perfect for interior designers, comes in two sizes, and uses only free fonts! Designed for printing in either A4 or US Letter, it’s a print-ready package that only needs your customization.

Book Cover Template (FREE)

This free InDesign book jacket template is a handy InDesign template for self-publishers, authors and cover designers. Beautifully designed, adaptable and featuring elegant typography and an on-trend color scheme, make your book a reality with this free InDesign dust jacket template for hardcover and hardback book.

Square Lookbook Magazine Envato Elements

Stand out from the crowd with a Square Look Book InDesign template suitable for any purpose, really! Includes 20 pre-designed pages, layered files, and prints at 8×8 beautifully!

PhotoBook Layout Envato Elements

This Photo Book template for InDesign is full of rich, earthy color, but is fully customizable with an easy-to-use palette. All images, text, and graphics are on separate layers, and includes master pages, grid layout, and many more features for the perfect US Letter printed book!

Cookbook/Recipes Book Envato Elements

Each page of this unique, free book template InDesign package offers a contemporary look with typography and layered templates that are easy to update. Features two sizes, 24 pages, paragraph and character styles, auto page numbering, and much more.

XAVIER Wedding Photobook Envato Elements

Make amazing wedding photos look even better with this free book template InDesign kit! Xavier is perfect for wedding photographer books, wedding event organizer projects or portfolios, and so much more. Layered images and bold graphic elements compliment the minimal design.

E-Book / Magazine Template Envato Elements

If you’re on the hunt for a bold, dark InDesign book template, look no further! Quark is great for magazines or books with auto page numbering and image sizing, and the colors are easy to modify and customize. Add your own images, drag the 58 pages around, and show off your creative dark side!

Fashion Lookbook Template (FREE)

This free InDesign fashion portfolio template is an easy-to-edit foundation for the presentation of project work and fashion photography. Complete with clean sans serif typography, stylish and simple layouts and a contemporary design style, it’s also easy to adapt with your own unique work by swapping in text and images.

Cookbook / Recipe Book Envato Elements

This Cookbook/Recipe Book InDesign template is chock full of 48 gorgeously laid out pages and comes in 2 sizes. This one’s great for a budding chef looking to create a collection of recipes, or a restaurant looking for a new, custom menu book.

Looking to Create Your Own Book Designs?

Create your own pro-standard books and book covers in Adobe InDesign with the NEW Self-Publish Starter Kit. Included in the Self-Publish Starter Kit are 7 cover and inside page templates for InDesign, with a choice of 7 cover design styles, sized to standard US and UK/European sizes.

The kit comes complete with instructions for exporting your book as a printable book and as a reflowable or fixed-layout EPUB (eBook), ready for uploading to book retailers such as Apple Store, Kindle Store, Kobo and Google Play.

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The Best Catalogue and Lookbook Templates for Adobe InDesign

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:52:34 +0000

Showcase fashion photography or product images in style with these beautiful fashion lookbook and product catalogue templates for InDesign.

Scroll down for our edit of the best InDesign fashion lookbook templates from our partner, Envato Elements.

Looking for lookbook ideas? From Desigual’s colourful catalogues to Margaret Howell’s minimal magazines, these fierce fashion lookbooks will get you seriously inspired.

Bright – Lookbook Catalogue Envato Elements

Create this lookbook with catalog designs in this template, and feature your pitch deck style portfolio to showcase your work. This INDD, IDML template includes master pages, paragraph styles, auto page numbering, and 25 total pages to work with!

Fashion Lookbook Catalogue Envato Elements

Fashion designer catalogues like this require a fabulous template with master pages, paragraph styles, column or grid alignments, and need to be easily editable for brand identity as well as your showcase. Includes 25 pages, free fonts, and a great help file!

Lookbook Catalogue Envato Elements

Catalog designs can be tough to nail down in terms of brand continuity. This simple editorial layout template includes 22 pages for InDesign with clean grid based layouts and two ready to print size options. Use these creative designer catalogues to showcase your products with ease!

Catalogue / Lookbook Template Envato Elements

Catalogue designing can be complicated when you want to decide on layouts, so this template gives you over 65 page options to choose from! Make them all the same or mix and match to suit your brand. Easily update colors, paragraph and character styles, and much more with a grid based layout that really focuses on fashion designer catalogues.

Stripes Lookbook/Catalogue Envato Elements

Unique catalogue designs like Stripes gives you 22 pages of InDesign templates to work with for an easily customizable catalog designs option. It’s fun, funky, and bold, and features free fonts, too.

Fashion Portfolio and Lookbook Template (FREE)

A free fashion portfolio template from InDesignSkills, this stylish InDesign template provides a minimal, contemporary foundation for creating your own fashion lookbook, product catalogue or college portfolio. Complete with 6 beautifully-designed spreads, this FREE template will help you to present your fashion or product photography in style.

RATTU – Lookbook Brochure Catalogue Envato Elements

Clean, minimal design catalogues like RATTU are perfect for light, airy lookbooks that put the focus on the shape of the clothing, buildings, or whatever the central focus is of your business. Make your catalogue designing easy and crisp with well organized layers, master pages, and paragraph styles.

Lookbook / Catalog Template Envato Elements

Lookbook is a catalog designs template perfect for business or even newsletters! Includes Adobe InDesign files, 40 unique pages, automatic page numbering, paragraph styles, and much more.

Lookbook / Product Catalog Envato Elements

This designer catalogues template was created for product presentation in the fashion industry. It’s a square page/book layout with 16 pages and a 5mm bleed. Ready to print in saddle stitch or perfect bound with one click edits on a master page.

Soeta Catalog Lookbook Envato Elements

20 easily customizable pages come in Soeta, which makes catalogue designing a breeze with master pages, paragraph styles, and character styles. Print ready in A4 and US Letter sizes, the catalog designs in this lookbook feature amazing typography and unique layouts!

Lookbook Envato Elements

Clean, simple, minimalist, and with a unique ability to put your fashion designer catalogues together with style that doesn’t compromise the look and feel of your products. Comes with masterpages, 28 original layouts, free fonts, and a gridbased layout. It’s also print ready with a 3mm bleed, so all you need to do is add your content and you’re ready to roll.

Fashion Catalog / Lookbook Template Envato Elements

This fashion design catalogues template is modern, professionally designed, and ready to present your work with nice visual elements and a colorblocked style. Over 30 pages here give you every opportunity to fully customize your lookbook to match your brand with ease.

Anna Minimalist Catalog Lookbook Envato Elements

Grid content in catalog designs is one of the more popular, trendy layouts today. This 24 page customizable Adobe InDesign template comes with a master page, free fonts, and two sizes. Fully editable, too — all objects, colors, and text are editable with just a few clicks, and that is what makes catalogue designing a joyful experience for sure!

Look Book / Fashion Portfolio / Catalog Envato Elements

Selena’s focus is on the design catalogues photos more than anything, but does include some pretty amazing features like unlimited colors, free fonts, paragraph styles, and not only gives you an Adobe In Design catalogues but also a file that works in Microsoft Word as well! Beautiful and ultra clean creative look book template.

Lookbook Envato Elements

Talk about minimal and clean catalog designs! This lookbook template is suitable for any portfolio project and is super simple to customize. Comes in two sizes with 30 unique pages that are print ready with a 5mm bleed. Free fonts are used here and linked to in the help file. Works with Adobe InDesign CS4+.

Lookbook Envato Elements

This fashion design catalogues template is modern, professional, and ready to showcase your work with nice visual elements and a darker style. 18 pages here, in two sizes and high resolution give you every opportunity to fully customize your designer catalogues to suit your brand.

Looking to Create Your Own Book Designs?

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The Most Delicious Cookbook Templates for InDesign

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:48:14 +0000

What’s cooking? If you’re an ambitious home cook, talented chef or simply want to record your family’s best-loved recipes, these cookbook templates will help you to create a beautiful printed cookbook or convenient recipe eBook.

Scroll down for our edit of the best InDesign recipe book templates from our partner, Envato Elements.

Looking for salivating and satisfying inspiration? Discover these incredible cookbook designs.

Cook Envato Elements

Use this 24 page modern, clean, and incredibly structured cookbook maker template to create an eye-catching, print ready cookbook with all of your own recipes. Create with the cookbook template InDesign, but then convert to a PDF, magazine swipe file, printable download, and much more!

Cook Book Envato Elements

Looking for a minimalist, contemporary recipe book template PDF but not sure where to find the perfect one? This is it! Includes 28 fully editable pages, print ready in A4 and US Letter sizes with a 3mm bleed, and would be great to convert this to PDF, Word, or even a PowerPoint cookbook template!

Cookbook Envato Elements

24 deliciously editable pages in this easy cookbook template will have your recipes and photos looking absolutely perfect! Create a cookbook template printable recipe book and fill it up with all your favorites. Includes neatly organized layers, character and paragraph styles, smart layers, free fonts, and so much more! Print ready with a 3mm bleed, so you add your photos, recipe text, and done!

Cook Book and Recipes Envato Elements

The cover on this cookbook maker reminds us of the title of a cooking show. It just looks so creative and contemporary! This easy cookbook template is super editable, print ready, and only uses free fonts. Prints in square format, too, for a totally modern look! Edit colors, customize to match the tone of your photos, and so much more. You’ve got 24 pages to play with, so what are you going to cook up today?

Recipe Book Template (FREE)

Delish – Cookbook Envato Elements

The editable pages in this easy cookbook template will showcase your recipes in such a perfect, creative way! Create a cookbook template printable recipe book and fill it up with all your favorites.Print ready with a 3mm bleed, so you add your photos, recipe text, and send it for print!

Cookbook Envato Elements

This recipe cookbook maker is clean, modern and professional with strong typography make your printable look professional. It’s created in Adobe InDesign with 30 pages and with two paper sizes including US Letter and International A4. It is completely customizable to suite your brands colors and fonts.

Luscious cookbook Envato Elements

This ready for print easy cookbook template features an editorial style with fully customizable layers, preview files, and 18 deliciously editable pages. It uses free fonts, of course, and includes bleeds and everything, so you only have to swap out your images and text and send it to the printer!

Raw Cookbook Envato Elements

Go green with the RAW cookbook template for InDesign. Includes master pages, free fonts, and more, with all images, text, and backgrounds on separate layers on two dozen pages. You can easily edit your brand colors through palette, too!

Elea Cookbook Magazine Envato Elements

Get that natural, light, airy look with this 30 page cookbook template printable or digital kit. Includes 2 page sizes, master pages, grid content, and all colors and text are fully editable and customizable. We love it as-is, but this cookbook maker is all yours to change up as you need!

Cooking Book Magazine Template Envato Elements

Love InDesign but feel better using a cookbook template in Photoshop instead? This one’s the one! Includes 25 pages, free fonts, and even works in MS Word or as a great Google Docs template, too!

SALTY Editorial Cookbook Envato Elements

Salty is an editorial cookbook template for professional chefs and food photographers with layered imagery, bold graphic elements and flashes of color. The layouts are minimal, beautifully spaced and elegant. It’s perfect for Food Magazine, Editorial Cookbook, Food Recipe Ebook and Professional Restaurant Cookbook.

Cookbook / Recipe Book Envato Elements

We’re digging on this cookbook maker, y’all. 34 pages for InDesign and Affinity Publisher make this cookbook template PDF super versatile! It uses free fonts, prints in two sizes, and includes a help file to get you through everything you need to know.

KITCHEN STORIES – Recipe Cookbook Envato Elements

It’s not always easy to find a cookbook template PDF file that comes with one for InDesign, but here we have it! Make your cookbook look like a magazine by sharing stories from your kitchen along with full page photos and recipes, and stand out from the crowd for sure!

Pizza Cookbook / Recipe Book Template Envato Elements

We know the example here is for pizza, but this easy cookbook template can be adapted to suit any food niche! With well organized layers, it’s easy to customize the pages to match your product, branding, and more. Don’t forget the pepperoni!

Dessert Cookbook Template InDesign Envato Elements

Last but not least, we need to finish up with dessert, right? This cookbook template is as sweet as can be, and includes a table of contents function and automatic page numbering, too. There are free fonts, paragraph styles, and example placeholder images are included in this one so you can see what your layout will be in just a few clicks! So go grab yourself a tasty treat and make this baby your own!

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Book Jacket Template

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:34:07 +0000

This free InDesign book jacket template is a handy InDesign template for self-publishers, authors and cover designers.

Beautifully designed, adaptable and featuring elegant typography and an on-trend color scheme, make your book a reality with this free InDesign dust jacket template for hardcover and hardback book.

This free InDesign book jacket template is an easy-to-edit foundation for creating your own book cover design. Complete with a stylish and simple design, front and back cover, spine and flaps, it also comes complete with two color options.

Included in your free InDesign template is an expandable book jacket design for hardcover and hardback books. So what are you waiting for? Scroll down to find out more, and download the template.

Book jacket template size:

6 x 9 in
US Trade*

*This is an expandable book jacket template set up for a Trade cover size. 6 by 9 inches is one of the most popular standard sizes for books, however other sizes are widely used. There’s no need to panic if you require a different size; see our handy tutorial on how to resize templates .

Below you can preview this book jacket template, download the InDesign file and find a variety of helpful tips on how to edit your template in InDesign.

Download this Template

Download this InDesign book jacket template for free (your download will include an INDD file for InDesign CC and an IDML version for opening in InDesign CS4, CS5 or CS6):

Download Template (Free)

Help Working with InDesign Templates

We’ve put together a collection of helpful tips to make editing our InDesign Templates super easy. If you’re a newbie to Adobe InDesign it’s worth checking these out before starting work on your design.

How to Open an InDesign Template

Step 1. Download the file.

Step 2. Our InDesign templates are packaged and saved as ZIP files. If you have a Windows computer Right Click > Extract All before opening the InDesign file.

Step 3. If you’re running InDesign CS6 open the INDD version of the file. If you’re working with InDesign CS4, CS5 or CC open the IDML version.

How to Work With Layers in Your Template

Our InDesign templates are organized into layers, which group similar elements together. The layers in your document can be controlled from the Layers panel (Window > Layers).

Pro tip: Try locking the YOUR IMAGES HERE layer to save time when editing text. This will prevent you from accidentally moving the graphics out of position.

How to Change the Colors

The color scheme of this template can be edited from the Swatches panel (Window > Color > Swatches).

Pro tip: Editing a swatch will automatically update all instances of that color across your document.

How to Add Your Own Text

The text across this design can easily replaced with your own copy. Simple use the Type Tool (T) to select the text box you wish to edit. You can then add your own fonts and formatting. Read more about formatting text in InDesign.

How to Add Your Own Images

You’ll notice when you first open the template that all the image frames have a placeholder image. You can insert your own images by selecting the image frame and using File > Place to select a replacement image. Read our beginner’s guide to working with images in InDesign.

Pro tip: Do your images look blurry? Make sure your display is set to high-quality (View > Display Performance > High-Quality Display). To see more accurately how your design will appear when printed go to View > Overprint Preview.

How to Resize Pages in InDesign

It’s simple to change the width of the spine in your template by using the Page Tool (Shift+P). Select the tool and then click onto the spine to select it. You can drag the sides of the page to preview your desired new size. Hold down Alt or Option while you drag to resize the page. Read more about resizing pages in InDesign.

How to Export Your Document for Printing

Once you’ve completed work on your template and you’re ready to print it you can head to File > Export. To create a print-ready file, choose Adobe PDF (Print) from the Format drop-down menu in the Export window. Make sure to include the bleed in your export options by checking Use Document Bleed Settings in the Export Adobe PDF window. Read more about prepping your designs for printing in InDesign.

How to Change the Fonts in a Document

You can format individual items of text using the Type Tool (T) and Controls panel, which you’ll find running along the top of the InDesign workspace. The fonts in most templates are not set as InDesign styles. However, it’s easy to create a Character or Paragraph Style using existing text formatting, and then edit this from the Styles panels (Window > Styles). Read more about editing Styles in InDesign.

Discover more tips for InDesign beginners on our Tutorials page. Or discover inspiration about typography, layout design and much more right here.

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Recipe Book Template

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:17:58 +0000

Present your favorite recipes beautifully with this free InDesign cookbook template, which features a clean, minimal style, elegant serif typography and easy-to-edit layouts.

This free InDesign recipe book template is an easy-to-edit foundation for creating your own self-published cookery book. Complete with a stylish cover layout, versatile layouts and a contemporary design style, it’s also easy to adapt with your own recipes by swapping in text and images.

This free recipe book template includes a front and back cover design, contents page, 7 beautiful spreads and easy-to-apply type styles. So what are you waiting for? Scroll down to find out more, and download the template.

Recipe book template size:

7.9 x 10.9 in
Large hardcover or softcover

7.9 by 10.9 inches is one of the most popular standard sizes for cookery books and recipe books, however other sizes are widely used. There’s no need to panic if you require a different size; see our handy tutorial on how to resize templates .

Below you can preview this recipe book portfolio template, download the InDesign file and find a variety of helpful tips on how to edit your template in InDesign.

Download this Template

Download this InDesign recipe book template for free (your download will include an INDD file for InDesign CC and an IDML version for opening in InDesign CS4, CS5 or CS6):

Help Working with InDesign Templates

How to Open an InDesign Template

Step 1. Download the file.

Step 2. Our InDesign templates are packaged and saved as ZIP files. If you have a Windows computer Right Click > Extract All before opening the InDesign file.

Step 3. If you’re running InDesign CS6 open the INDD version of the file. If you’re working with InDesign CS4, CS5 or CC open the IDML version.

How to Work With Layers in Your Template

Our InDesign templates are organized into layers, which group similar elements together. The layers in your document can be controlled from the Layers panel (Window > Layers).

Pro tip: Try locking the YOUR IMAGES HERE layer to save time when editing text. This will prevent you from accidentally moving the graphics out of position.

How to Change the Colors

The color scheme of this template can be edited from the Swatches panel (Window > Color > Swatches).

Pro tip: Editing a swatch will automatically update all instances of that color across your document.

How to Add Your Own Text

How to Add Your Own Images

How to Resize Pages in InDesign

How to Export Your Document for Printing

How to Change the Fonts in a Document

Discover more tips for InDesign beginners on our Tutorials page. Or discover inspiration about typography, layout design and much more right here.

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