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PROFESSIONAL BOOK INTERIOR LAYOUT & DESIGN

Your Book Interior Shapes the Reader Experience

Professional interior formatting is included with every publishing package.

Professionally Formatted

Every publishing package includes professional interior formatting designed for readability, consistency, and reliable book production.

Designed for Your Book

Typography, spacing, chapter treatments, page structure, and visual elements work together to complement your content, cover, and genre.

No Design Expertise Required

You don't need to understand typography, margins, gutters, or print specifications. Our designers handle those details for you.

DESIGNED FOR THE READER

Your Interior Has an Important Job to Do

Readers experience your book layout on every page. Thoughtful typography, spacing, page structure, and visual elements work together to make your book inviting, comfortable to read, and appropriate for its content and genre.

Example of professionally formatted book interior pages

Professional book formatting brings your content, cover, and genre together into a cohesive reading experience.

SAME CONTENT. DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES.

See the Difference Interior Formatting Can Make

The same content can look dramatically different depending on the level of interior design. See it presented with Standard formatting, Enhanced styling, and fully Custom design.

Standard
Standard Interior Formatting example

Professional & Reader-Friendly

Clean typography, spacing, and page structure selected by your designer to complement the book's content, cover, and genre.

Enhanced
Enhanced Interior Formatting example

More Personalized

Author input helps shape typography, chapter treatments, decorative elements, and a more distinctive visual style.

Custom
Custom Interior Formatting example

Fully Creative

Specialized layouts and advanced visual treatments allow individual pages and sections to be designed around the content.

Standard Your designer creates a professional interior appropriate for your content, cover, and genre.
Enhanced You provide preferences for the overall visual style, and your designer creates a personalized design system that guides the interior throughout your book.
Custom Your designer has greater creative freedom to develop specialized page-by-page and section-by-section layouts and treatments around the content itself.

DESIGNED FOR THE BOOK

See How Interior and Cover Design Work Together

Interior design can dramatically change the reading experience. These published examples show how typography, imagery, spacing, and page structure can complement each book’s content and visual identity.

The Chick Magnet cover and professionally designed interior

Typography with Personality

Cover, typography, illustrations, and page treatments can work together to establish a distinctive visual personality while keeping the content clear and readable.

Mission Proxima b cover and professionally designed interior

Imagery Integrated with the Story

A primarily text-driven book can still incorporate strategically placed artwork or illustrations while maintaining a clean, professional reading experience.

Ferdinand the Fisherman cover and illustrated interior

Design That Supports the Content

Poetry, prose, and original artwork can be arranged to give each element room to breathe while creating a cohesive visual experience across facing pages.

OPTIONS FOR EVERY BOOK

Three Ways to Shape the Reader Experience

Standard Interior

Professional, clean, genre-appropriate formatting designed for readability, and reliable book production. Your professional designer makes the primary typography and formatting decisions for you.

  • Professional typography and spacing
  • Consistent paragraph and page formatting
  • Professional chapter and section headings
  • Headers, page numbering, and page structure as appropriate
  • Professionally prepared front matter
  • Formatting for your selected trim size
Well Suited For
  • Novels and short fiction
  • Memoirs and autobiographies
  • Poetry with straightforward layouts
  • Primarily text-based nonfiction
  • Books with straightforward image placement

Professional standard interior formatting is included with every publishing package.

Enhanced Interior

A designer-built style system with as much or as little creative input as you choose gives your interior a more distinctive and personalized visual identity.

  • Everything included with professional Standard formatting, plus:
  • Input on fonts, spacing, and visual direction where desired
  • Personalized typography and spacing
  • Styled chapter openers and section treatments
  • Coordinated headers, footers, dividers, and decorative elements
  • Ability to supply a commercially licensed font
  • Ability to preserve an existing interior design when appropriate
Well Suited For
  • Authors who want a more distinctive interior
  • Books that benefit from added visual personality
  • Authors who want input without page-by-page design
  • Authors who want to maintain existing interior formatting

Guide the details that matter to you and leave the rest to your professional designer.

Explore Enhanced Interior

Custom Interior

Page-by-page creative design for books that require specialized layouts, advanced visual treatments, or complex content.

  • Everything available with Enhanced formatting, plus:
  • One-on-one creative collaboration
  • Specialized page and section layouts
  • Advanced typography and graphic treatments
  • Callout boxes, sidebars, and specialty elements
  • Advanced image and illustration integration
  • Page-by-page design where the content requires it
Well Suited For
  • Children's books
  • Cookbooks and workbooks
  • Instructional and educational books
  • Art-driven and image-heavy books
  • Books requiring specialized or complex layouts

Designed for books where the layout itself is an important part of the reading experience.

Explore Custom Interior
Already Have a Finished Interior? Ultimate authors can supply their own professionally designed, print-ready interior.

Your completed interior must be prepared for professional book production and meet Outskirts Press quality, production, and usage requirements.

  • Interior must be prepared for the correct trim size.
  • Images and graphics must meet production-quality requirements.
  • Fonts and other incorporated material must be properly licensed and embedded.
  • The completed file must meet applicable book-production specifications.
Want to Preserve Your Existing Formatting? Authors who want to maintain their own interior formatting and visual styling must select at least Enhanced Interior Formatting.

If you've already created specific interior formatting you want reflected in the published book, choose Enhanced or Custom Interior Formatting. This gives your designer greater flexibility to preserve the visual styling you've established rather than replacing it with Standard Interior Formatting.

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Get your free publishing kit to learn more about professional book design, publishing packages, distribution, pricing, and the services available to help bring your book to readers.

THE DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

Interior Book Layout & Design is More Than Choosing a Font

The visual details of a book interior help organize your content, establish hierarchy, reinforce your book's personality, and guide readers through each page. Enhanced and Custom options provide additional opportunities to personalize these elements.

Example of professionally styled chapter opener
Included with Standard

Chapter Openers

Every interior includes professionally styled chapter openers. With Enhanced or Custom design, you can provide preferences for how they look or leave the creative choices to your designer.

Example of coordinated book headers and footers
Included with Standard

Headers & Footers

Headers and/or footers and page numbers are professionally styled as appropriate for your book. With Enhanced or Custom design, you can provide preferences for their appearance or leave those decisions to your designer.

Example of decorative section divider
Included with Standard

Section & Page Dividers

Section and page dividers are professionally styled where appropriate for your content. With Enhanced or Custom design, you can provide preferences for their appearance or leave those choices to your designer.

Example of decorative book interior elements
Enhanced / Custom

Decorative Elements

Ornaments, rules, icons, and other details can carry a visual theme throughout the book without distracting from the content.

Example of custom callout box and sidebar design
Custom

Callout Boxes & Sidebars

Specialized layouts can give tips, exercises, supplemental information, quotations, or other content greater visual distinction.

Example of professional image integration in a book interior
Custom

Advanced Visual Layouts

Images, illustrations, graphics, and text can be arranged in specialized layouts when visual storytelling is an important part of the book.

ADD VISUAL INTEREST

Bring Your Book to Life with Images and Illustrations

Book interior featuring author-supplied images

Use Your Own Images

Include photographs, artwork, charts, or other images you own or have the necessary rights or permission to use. Submitted images must also meet applicable quality and production requirements.

Book interior enhanced with professional stock imagery

Add Professional Imagery

Don't have the right images? Professionally licensed stock imagery can be added to create a more engaging and visually polished interior.

Explore Image-Enriched Interiors
Professionally illustrated book interior

Add Custom Illustrations

Original illustrations aren't just for children's books. Custom artwork can enhance fiction, memoir, instructional books, nonfiction, poetry, and other books where illustration helps communicate the story or idea.

Explore Custom Illustration

Image Insertions Are Included with Publishing Packages

Each publishing package includes a set number of image insertions. If your book needs more, additional image insertions can be purchased.

Economy Publishing Package: 5 Images
Basic Publishing Package: 10 Images
Ultimate Publishing Package: 20 Images

One-Click Publishing Suites include twice the standard number of image insertions in the Ultimate package.

Images must meet applicable quality and production requirements, and authors must have the necessary rights or permission for submitted imagery. Additional formatting or design services may be required for complex image placement or highly visual layouts.

AUTHOR EXPERIENCES

What Authors Say About Our Interior Book Design Services

Authors notice the details that make their finished book feel polished, distinctive, and right for their content.

“
I love the choice of font, the graphic elements used as spacers, and the design for the section dividers. All perfect!

— Barbara Lehman Smith

“
I just received my book and was very pleased with the interior. I love the colored pages, the style of font, and the text format. I would definitely recommend the Enhanced Interior to everyone.

— Barbara Bryan

“
Wow!!!! These are awesome concepts! I love them all. They really capture the feel I was hoping to achieve. This is truly something I would have been unable to do for myself. Thanks for taking the time to understand what I needed for this book.

— Horace McMillon