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15 layout templates, one for every genre

Each template combines fonts, margins, line spacing and ornaments designed for a specific kind of book. Pick yours, preview every page in real time, then export to epub or PDF.

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.

Chapter I

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

Free
An ordinary Tuesday

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

Free
The blue hour

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

Starter
Three minutes

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

Pro
Chapter 7

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

Pro
The first look

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

Pro
The Tower of Winds

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

Pro

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.

Introduction

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

Pro
I. The meaning of clarity

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

Starter
2. Emergent structures

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

Pro
The dough and time

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

Pro

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.

Gardens of the soul

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

Starter
Lacunary

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

Pro
November 3

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

Pro
Opening

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

Pro

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