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Path D | Cover / Book Cover

FREE Cover Creation Workshop

Create a quick cover here for Your Book or Art Album (colors, fonts, logo, images, and ISBN) on the exact template from your book’s print parameters (size, paper type, page count, spine, and so on), or download the pattern and finish it in Canva or another design program. The template and the RGB color PDF you can download for free. The PDF with CMYK color conversion (US and Europe) you can generate and download with a $19 USD payment.

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Template view (back · spine · front)

Cover file size (wrap): 12.550 in × 9.250 in (318.8 mm × 234.9 mm) · Spine: 0.300 in (7.6 mm)

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Drag to move. On title, back cover and flaps, corners and side handles widen the box (same type size, text wraps). The box stays inside its panel. A thin red dashed guide appears when you near the center of the front or back cover. The Size slider changes type size. Ctrl + wheel zooms the viewer.

Keyboard arrows or these buttons (works on a tablet). You can also drag with a finger.

ISBN barcode

Cream / ivory 50 lb (uncoated offset, novel stock) · 6 x 9 in (15.2 x 22.9 cm) - Fiction Standard · 120 pages

RGB is screen color. Amazon KDP and several digital printers accept the cover in RGB: what you see in the viewer. Download it free in this session.

This template is the empty wrap —back, spine, and front— with trim, bleed, and spine already measured. Open it in Canva, Photoshop, or any other design program and keep painting there. When you finish, that same PDF is the file you send to print.

The template and the RGB cover download for free (Amazon KDP often wants RGB). A $19 USD payment unlocks every CMYK of this cover (GRACoL, FOGRA, SWOP, Japan Color). Each button delivers that color system. Closing the tab deletes the file.

The three most requested

Coated / couché stock, gloss or matte (laminated hardcover/paperback, magazine). Usual IngramSpark US request. Do not use on cream/ivory or uncoated offset.

European coated / couché stock (ISO 12647-2). Common for IngramSpark Europe and EU offset. Do not use on uncoated offset or novel cream.

Newer European coated / couché (2013). Use if the printer names PSO Coated v3. Covers and magazines on gloss or matte coated paper.

Other specifications (same session, already included in the payment)

United States

Older US coated / couché (pre-2013). Some legacy offset shops still ask for it. Same paper type as GRACoL2013 (coated).

US web press (web magazines, not typical casewrap). Publication coated / couché stock. Not the IngramSpark cover profile.

US uncoated offset: novel cream/ivory, matte offset, porous unlaminated cover. Do not use on a gloss-laminated casewrap (that needs coated/couché).

Uncoated US web (offset, not couché). Uncommon for book covers. Confirm with the printer.

Europe

European uncoated offset (white or natural/ivory). Novels, essays, unlaminated paperback. Not for coated/couché or laminated covers.

Newer European uncoated (offset or cream/ivory). If the printer says PSO Uncoated v3, this one.

Yellowish / cream European offset (uncoated ivory). Typical novel natural stock. Not for bright white coated/couché.

Japan

Japan coated / couché (covers and magazines). Not GRACoL or FOGRA: different inks and paper. Only if the printer is in Japan or names it.

Japan uncoated (offset or cream/ivory). Do not send to IngramSpark US or Europe.

The template and the RGB design are free. If your printer wants CMYK, pay once and download the exact code on their spec sheet (and the variants below if they ask). The print-ready interior is still Path A, B, or C.

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