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Book design & typesetting
Books designed, typeset and sent to press.
A manuscript becomes a book through a grid, a specimen page and a cover you can actually print. We read the manuscript before we price it, set English and Devanagari with the same discipline, and hand over files that are imposition-ready rather than merely finished-looking.
What is included
What the work actually covers.
Cover and jacket
Two or three directions, each carried to a finished jacket — spine and back cover included, so the choice you make is a real one rather than a front-only mock-up.
Interior grid
Trim, margins, type sizes and leading, approved as a real sample page before the full set begins.
Full pagination
Front and back matter in place — imprint, contents, appendices, index and colophon, not just the body text.
Devanagari setting
Hindi is set by an editor who reads it. Verse gets its own leading and matra clearance, never a conversion that is hoped for.
Series identity
Where a title belongs to a list, the grid and cover system are built to carry across future volumes.
Press-ready output
PDF/X with 3 mm bleed, 300 dpi images and CMYK throughout, prepared for imposition.
How it runs
Six steps from brief to press.
Brief and estimate
We read the manuscript before we price it. Extent and scope decide the figure — never a rate card.
Grid and specimen
Trim, margins, type sizes and leading — approved as a real sample page, not as a description.
Cover directions
Two or three routes, each carried to a finished jacket — spine and back cover included, so the choice is real.
Typesetting
Full pagination with front and back matter in place — imprint, contents, appendices, index, colophon.
Proofs and revise
Marked proofs, corrections entered one by one, and the log closed by a second reader.
Press handover
PDF/X with 3 mm bleed, 300 dpi images, CMYK throughout — imposition-ready, not merely finished-looking.
From the studio
Pages we have already printed.
Questions
The things clients ask first.
Who owns the rights to the finished book?
You do, from page one. We design, typeset and prepare for press — the imprint, the ISBN and the title remain yours. We are the studio behind the book, not the publisher of record.
How is a book priced?
We read the manuscript before quoting. Extent and scope decide the figure, so there is no rate card — a 120-page poetry collection and a 600-page reference work are not the same job.
Can you set Hindi and English in the same book?
Yes. Both scripts are set to the same standard on the same page. Devanagari is handled by an editor who reads it, with leading and matra clearance judged rather than inherited from the Latin setting.
What do you hand over at the end?
PDF/X with 3 mm bleed, 300 dpi images and CMYK throughout — files a press can impose directly.
Also from the studio
Take ₹5,000 in design credit.
Experience the full service first and pay only when you are completely satisfied. Including GST.