Studio 05 · Design

A book that looks like a book.

The Design studio is the typesetter you didn't know you needed. Pick a preset for the kind of book you're shipping, trade fiction, literary, romance, pulp, memoir, poetry, then tune anything you want. Export to PDF, EPUB, or both. No InDesign required.

Chapter 01·Theme presets

Start from a finished-looking book.

Curated presets built by working book designers, fonts, margins, leading, drop caps, header style, scene-break ornament, all picked to land on the right shelf. Switch between presets in one click; your manuscript reflows live.

Trade fiction & literary

Classical serif body, restrained running heads, generous margins. Good defaults for any general fiction or memoir.

Romance & commercial

Slightly wider tracking, decorative drop caps, ornamented chapter openers, the book-design moves that signal "curl up with this one."

Pulp, SFF, thriller

Tighter leading, condensed display type, no-nonsense chapter heads. Built for page-turners that need to feel like page-turners.

Chapter 02·Tune anything

The typographer's controls, made readable.

Every preset is a starting point. Open the panel and adjust whatever the book needs: body font and size, leading, paragraph indent depth, justified vs. ragged-right, hyphenation rules, widow and orphan control, drop-cap style, chapter-opening blank lines, running-head content, page-number position, scene- break ornament.

Every change previews live on a real spread, not a swatch. Save your tuned version as a custom preset so the next book can start from it.

Scene breaks

Pick from a library of dingbats, rules, ornaments, blank-line breaks, or upload your own SVG.

Chapter openers

Drop cap, headline style, swash flourish, opening image, mix and match. Templates for every genre.

Front & back matter

Title page, copyright, dedication, epigraph, acknowledgements, also-by, author bio. Templates with the right typography for each.

Chapter 03·Export

PDF, EPUB, both.

Thread tier ships PDF only, enough to read a draft on paper or send to a beta reader. Spool and up unlock print-ready PDF (trim sizes, bleed, embedded fonts) and reflowable EPUB built from the same source, different output, same book.

Ship a book that looks like one.