KDP Cover Template Generator

One page at your cover's exact full-wrap size, with the bleed edge, the back and front trim boxes, the spine panel and its centre line, the text-safe area inset inside each cover, and KDP's barcode keep-out box on the back. Your book's binding, trim, page count, spine width and full-wrap size are printed on the template itself, so the file still tells you what it is months later.

They are the same template in the three shapes people actually use. The PDF is vector at the exact wrap size and carries trim and bleed boxes a print shop can read. The transparent PNG is the guides alone at 300 DPI, so you can put it on a layer above your artwork and switch it off before export. The flat PNG is the whole template on white, for when you just want a picture of it. All three describe one cover, so downloading every one of them uses a single template from your daily allowance.

It is built from the same published measurements — per-page paper thickness by ink and paper type, KDP's 0.125in bleed, and its 0.125in text-safe inset — so the dimensions match. It is not Amazon's file, and it is not an approval of your cover. Amazon's own template generator is behind a form on their site; this one is not, and it gives you the numbers on the page as well as in the file.

The paperback formula uses KDP's own published per-page thickness constants. The hardcover formula is not KDP-published: it was fitted to a large reference dataset of real KDP hardcover dimensions and matched to within 0.001in across every trim size and paper type we tested. Treat it as an estimate and verify against KDP's official template download before final print submission.

A cover file is one flat sheet covering back, spine and front at once, plus 0.125in of bleed on every outer edge that gets trimmed off after printing. So a 6in × 9in book with a 0.45in spine produces a 12.7in × 9.25in cover file. That full-wrap figure is the one to build your artwork at.

No — the opposite. The guides are there to lay artwork against, and printing them would print them. Use the transparent PNG on its own layer and hide it before you export, or place the PDF as a reference layer and delete it. Your final upload should be artwork only.

KDP only prints spine text on books over 79 pages, and it requires 0.0625in of clear space on each side of it. That leaves very little type height on a thin book: an 80-page black-and-white interior has roughly 4pt of usable height, smaller than most footnotes. Around 150 pages is a realistic floor for spine text someone can actually read.

Enough for real work, with a daily cap so the tool cannot be used as a free rendering farm. The counter under the download buttons shows what you have left before it matters, and it counts templates rather than files — so all three downloads of one cover cost one, and re-downloading a template you already made is always free.