All About Your Cover

Learn where to place your elements, where to find the size of your cover, and where to find your end sheets/inside printing (if applicable).

Written by Julia W.

Updated at August 19th, 2026

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Table of Contents

Cover Guidelines: Cover Dimensions: Pre-Designed Covers Inside printing/End sheets Hardcover ladder view: Softcover ladder view

Cover Guidelines:

Knowing the guidelines is the first step to creating an amazing cover!

Firstly, it should be noted that the front of your cover should be placed on the right side of the page, and the back design should be on the left. The blue spine guideline will split up your design space.

Like pages, your cover also has 3 distinct guidelines to adhere to.

Any text or important element you want on your cover should be within the purple safety zone. Anything 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, you can add a text box to your page by using the “Insert spine text” tool in the text feature:

Once your text box is on the page, select it so the blue circles appear around it.

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 and spine will differ based on your cover type and page count. This also takes your bleed into account, so if you're working on a different program, keep this in mind. 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”

Next, select the “backgrounds” button

Scroll down and click the category named “Pre-Designed Covers” which will appear alphabetically under the list of background categories.

All Pre-Designed covers will automatically scale to the size of the cover that you have.

You can also find additional cover designs under Layouts. First, you will need to select the “Layouts” button:

Next, select the category Covers:

The cover templates will automatically scale to fit your cover design. Be sure to change any text on the cover to your school name and project year.

Inside printing/End sheets

If your book has Inside printing (softcover books) or printed end sheets (hardcover books), you'll be able to edit these upgrades on the yearbook ladder.

Hardcover ladder view:

The front and back end sheets can be found right under the cover thumbnail.

Softcover ladder view

The front inside cover can be found next to page 1, and the other side can be found next to the very last page.

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