Templates
15 layout templates, one for every genre
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2 free templates, 5 from the Starter plan, all 15 on Pro.
Novel and fiction
Layouts designed for long-form narrative: careful justification, optional drop caps and elegant chapter breaks. From literary novels to thrillers, romance and fantasy.
It was an autumn night I shall not soon forget. Rain struck the windows with metronomic regularity, and I stood motionless by the glass, my eyes lost in the darkness of the garden below.
My host had left the room an hour earlier. I could hear him pacing upstairs, his heavy tread wearing a groove between the library and the bedroom.
Classic
Fiction générale, littérature
I am writing to you from a café you don't know, in a city where you have never been. There is something liberating in this anonymity.
Outside, people pass quickly, without looking at one another. The whole city seems to have learned not to see.
Minimal
Fiction contemporaine, essai
She arrived at the hour when light hesitates between day and night, that suspended moment that painters call the blue hour and lovers dread.
He had been sitting in the same armchair for three years, since the night everything had shifted. His cup of coffee was growing cold for the second time.
Ink
Fiction littéraire, Nouvelle, Récit
Three minutes. That was all he had left. He could hear the footsteps on the stairs, steady, methodical, inexorable. He scanned the room: the window was six meters away, the ground twelve below.
There was no other way out. There never had been.
Thriller
Thriller, Policier, Suspense
It had been raining on the city for five days. Malone lit his third cigarette of the hour and stared at the photograph pinned to the corkboard.
A woman. Thirty, maybe less. Gone on a Wednesday evening. The cops had closed the case. He had just reopened it.
Noir
Polar, Roman noir, Crime fiction
He looked at her once, and it was enough. In the golden light of the evening, she was laughing at something her friend had just said, and that genuine laugh was like a crack in the armor he had worn for too long.
He did not yet know that this woman was going to change everything he thought he knew about himself.
Romance
Romance, Dark romance
From the Tower of Winds, one could see the three kingdoms stretching to the Dawn Mountains. Lyra placed her hand on the cold stone and felt the ancient magic pulsing beneath her fingers.
The prophecy had not lied. The hour had come.
Fantasy
Fantasy, Heroic fantasy, Science-fiction
Essay, non-fiction and how-to
For books of ideas and technical works: readable heading hierarchy, comfortable line spacing and a sober look suited to notes, quotes and structured passages.
The question of collective memory, as formulated by Halbwachs in 1925, implies a profound reconsideration of our assumptions about the individual and society.
Far from being a purely neurological phenomenon, memory is embedded in a social space that determines its contours and its lacunae.
Academic
Non-fiction, Essai, Biographie
To write clearly is to think clearly. This equation, which seems obvious, proves in practice to be formidably complex.
Elaborate style often masks the absence of ideas. True intellectual rigor needs no ornament; it is recognized by its transparency.
Sage
Essai, Développement personnel, Non-fiction
Complex systems produce collective behaviors that their individual components do not allow one to predict. This phenomenon, known as emergence, constitutes one of the major challenges of contemporary scientific modeling.
We shall examine its fundamental mechanisms here.
Scientia
Science, Vulgarisation, Manuel technique
Good dough needs time. That is the first lesson my grandmother taught me, and it is the one I still sometimes forget.
The baker who rushes gets a decent loaf. The one who waits gets something else, something that cannot quite be explained, but that everyone recognizes on the first bite.
Craft
Livre pratique, Art de vivre, Cuisine
Poetry, journal and fine books
When form matters as much as content: line breaks preserved for poetry, an intimate tone for journals and memoirs, and refined finishing for prestige editions.
In gardens that no eye can see, the souls who dared to dream are in bloom. Beauty is not given; it is won in the fertile darkness of inner silence.
So spoke the woman with moonlit hair, as the black roses opened one by one in the perfumed night.
Nouveau
Littérature symboliste, Poésie, Décadence
What I said by staying silent,
that is where you live, between the words I could not find.
Do not look any further than the blank.
Poem
Poésie, Recueil, Vers libre
It is cold this morning. I got up before the sun, as I often do, and looked out of the window for a long time without really seeing.
This notebook is eight years old now. I reread the first pages sometimes and do not quite recognize the man who wrote them. Was it me? Was it him?
Journal
Journal intime, Mémoires, Autobiographie
There are books one holds differently, with a slight hesitation in the hands, as if their weight exceeds that of the paper.
This is one of them. It was made to last, to cross libraries and generations, to be handed down as much as read.
Prestige
Beau livre, Édition de luxe, Collector
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