Font & Layout Settings

Configure your book’s body typography and page layout conventions. Set your trim before tuning these (see trim sizes and page margins) and pair body type with book headers and footers for matching running heads.

Body Text Typography

This is where you customize the typography for your book’s body text.

• Font: Choose from a variety of fonts. Look for fonts with a green check mark, which have all the styles needed to render properly in your PDF.

• Size: Adjust the size of your body text.

• Line Spacing: Control the spacing between lines.

Tip

You can add your own Google Fonts for even more typography options.

Table of Contents

Generate a table of contents: Include a table of contents page with automatically generated page numbers. Lacuna updates page numbers as your content changes.

Page Numbering

Page numbering has its own dedicated panel and a full guide. See Page Numbering to control where numbering starts, switch off Roman numerals, show numbers on chapter opening pages, and fix numbers that reset to 1 on every chapter.

Chapter Layout Rules

Seeing unexpected blank pages?

If blank pages are appearing before your chapters, check the two “right-hand page” options below. Turn both off if you don’t want any blank pages inserted.

• First Chapter on Right: Inserts a blank page if needed so your first chapter begins on a right-hand (recto) page.

• All Chapters on Right: Inserts blank pages between chapters as needed so every chapter begins on a right-hand page.

Pagination Control

Control how paragraph lines are distributed across page breaks.

• Orphans: The minimum number of lines that must appear at the bottom of a page before a paragraph continues on the next page.

• Widows: The minimum number of lines that must appear at the top of a page when a paragraph continues from the previous page.

Text Formatting

Configure text alignment and hyphenation for body paragraphs.

• Justify body text: Align text to both left and right margins for a traditional book look.

• Enable automatic hyphenation: Allow words to break at the end of lines to improve text flow.

When hyphenation is on, you can fine-tune it:

• Max consecutive lines: How many lines in a row may end with a hyphen. Lower this if you see too many hyphenated line endings stacked together.
• Hyphenate last word: Whether the last word of a paragraph may be hyphenated.
• Keep hyphenated words on one page: Avoids splitting a hyphenated word across a page break.

Under Word Splitting:

• Minimum word length: The shortest word that may be hyphenated at all.
• Min. letters before break and Min. letters after break: How many letters must stay on each side of a hyphen.

When your layout is locked in, export a print-ready PDF for KDP and IngramSpark.