Besides organizing a cookbook from the appetizer and main entrée to dessert, one of the most critical decisions is setting the final cookbook size. The size of a cookbook affects various things including the presentation, layout, readability, and overall design, so don’t take the measurements for granted. book printing
Cookbook Sizes for Print
Portrait Sizes
Besides the standard A4 portrait size-inch 8.5 × 11 or 210 × 297 millimeters, other print sizes include 5.5 × 8.5 in or 148 × 210 mm (A5) and 4.25 × 11 inches.
Landscape Sizes
The average landscape cookbook size is 11 × 8.5 inches with a horizontal page orientation, but you may also opt for smaller print sizes such as 9 × 6 inches and 8.5 × 5.5 inches.
Square Sizes
The commonly used square cookbook size is 12 × 12 inches, but there are other print sizes available such as 8 × 8 inches and 6 × 6 inches.
What Font Size Should a Cookbook Be?
Whether you create professional cookbooks or a kids’ book for cooking, cookbook recipe texts usually follow the 10–13-point type.
How Do You Create a Cookbook Cover Size?
Deciding on the cookbook cover size means following the formula:
cover width = 3 mm bleed + back cover width + spine width + front cover width + 3 mm bleed
cover height/length = 3 mm bleed + trim height + 3 mm bleed
How Do I Increase the Font Size of My Recipes?
Go to the app where you created the cookbook recipes and find the font tool from the menu to change the font size and even the font style and margins.
What Is the Best Paper Size for a Cookbook?
The best paper size for cookbooks is 8.5 × 11 inches but it can also be opinionated because it all comes down to your favorite paper size rather than following from generic cookbook paper sizes.
How to Reduce Cookbook Size in Photoshop
You can reduce the cookbook size in instant by clicking “Image Size” and inputting the new pixel dimension, document size, or resolution.
How Do You Design Cookbook in Pixel?
You can design cookbooks in pixels by using Photoshop, InDesign, and other tools that offer image resolution tools, and the recommended resolution would be 300 pixels per inch.
How Do You Layout a Cookbook?
A blank cookbook needs a proper layout including the appropriate trim size, creating recipe layouts, determining your cookbook sections, monitoring the recipe names, following a structure, writing headnotes, and taking pictures.
