Automatic typesetting tool

Source: after WeasyPrint’s “book-classical” sample

Source: Inspired by A Very Short Introduction series

Recommended ClassicThesis print setup

Interior

A4 (210 × 297 mm), no bleed or crop marks

Printing

Duplex; flip on the long edge; preserve intentional blank pages

Output

Print at 100% / Actual Size with embedded fonts

Binding

Left edge; the layout already includes 5 mm binding correction

Color

Black or grayscale interior

Type

11pt Palatino with approximately 14.3pt leading

Printer-dependent suggestion: 80–90 gsm uncoated stock for longer books, or 90–100 gsm for a shorter/premium copy. Confirm the gutter with the printer and supply the cover/spine separately.

Source: Book template using the ClassicThesis package (Overleaf)

Recommended memoir template print setup

Interior

6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm); stock equals trim, so no bleed or crop marks

Margins

0.75 in spine, 0.625 in fore-edge, 0.75 in head and foot

Type

12pt EB Garamond at about 16.3pt leading

Footnotes

Set at the foot of the page, numbered 1, 2, 3 …

Printing

Two-sided (duplex)

Color

Black interior

The template specifies only the 6 × 9 page and the type above; it prescribes no paper stock, binding correction, or cover. Confirm the gutter with your printer and supply the cover/spine separately.

Source: Memoir Book Template, 6×9 (Overleaf)

Recommended Tufte print setup

Interior

US letter (8.5 × 11 in), no bleed or crop marks

Printing

Duplex; flip on the long edge

Layout

Asymmetric by design — the sidenote column stays on the right edge of every page, verso and recto

Output

Print at 100% / Actual Size with embedded fonts

Color

Black or grayscale interior

Type

10pt Palatino (Bembo if installed) on 14pt leading, 26-pica measure

The Tufte-LaTeX classes also ship b5 and a4 variants; on other trims this theme scales the page and margin column linearly. Its LaTeX render (--pdf-engine latex) instead uses the genuine tufte-book class, which fixes 10/14 Palatino on a letter sheet: the font-size and line-height options don't apply there, and other trims resize only the sheet, not the sidenote column.

Source: Book design inspired by Edward Tufte (Overleaf)

Recommended mydiss print setup

Interior

156 × 234 mm (6.14 × 9.21 in); no bleed or crop marks

Margins

20.8 mm spine, 31.2 mm fore-edge (a wide outer margin), 20.2 mm head, 36.8 mm foot

Type

9pt Fedra Serif B where installed, otherwise Charter — both with oldstyle figures — at about 13.75pt leading (1.25 line spread)

Printing

Two-sided (duplex); flip on the long edge

Color

Black or grayscale interior

The class fixes only the 156 × 234 mm page and the type above; it prescribes no paper stock, binding correction, or cover. Confirm the gutter with your printer and supply the cover/spine separately.

Source: mydiss dissertation class by Michael Ummels

Recommended Polimi thesis print setup

Interior

A4 (210 × 297 mm); the chapter bars run to the trimmed fore-edge, so print with bleed or accept a hairline of white at the bar's end

Margins

memoir's A4 defaults: 1.47 in spine, 1.5 in fore-edge, 1.78 in head, 1.72 in foot

Type

12pt Minion Pro at 14.5pt leading, Myriad Pro furniture, Monaco listings

Printing

The source is one-sided; this adaptation mirrors the margins for two-sided (duplex) printing and always opens chapters on a right-hand page

Color

Black interior with BrickRed chapter initials — grayscale printing flattens them to gray

Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, and Monaco are commercial faces; kindred system fonts substitute where they are missing. The template prescribes no paper stock or binding, and its cover is a separate InDesign document — supply your own.

Source: Cerberus master thesis, Politecnico di Milano (Edoardo Colombo)