FDP Document
Style Guide
List of Pages
Cover Page
The cover page contains all the essential
information like the project title, name of the
student, mentor’s name, specific degree, chosen
silo and year of completion of the project. This is
the first page of your document inside the main
cover.
Mentor Declaration
The second page is the one in which the
respective mentors sign an acknowledgment
and approve that the project meets satisfactory
standards outlined in the curriculum for this
specific project.
Originality & Copyrights
In this page, the students sign an originality
statement for the work and the subsequent
document they present and specify an
appropriate CC license of their choice for the
project.
Cover Page
0.5 in Aligned to top right
margins
0.83 in Background -
#ec7426;
40 Opacity
Diamond color -
#ffffff
Number of
columns - 4
Diamond shape
center-aligned to
the page
Text center-aligned
to the diagonal of
the diamond
Text right-aligned
to bottom-right
margins
0.5 in
0.5 in The top and
bottom vertices
of the diamond
might bleed off the
page in horizontal
and square
orientations.
Landscape
Square
Portrait
Mentor Declaration
0.5 in Center-aligned to
top margin
0.83 in Background -
#ec7426;
40 Opacity
Circles color -
#ffffff
Text-box stretches
three columns; left
aligned
Number of
columns - 4
For positioning of
circles, refer
template
Text left-aligned
to bottom-right
margins
0.5 in
0.5 in
Square
Portrait
Landscape
Originality Statement
0.5 in Center-aligned to
top margin
0.83 in Background-
#ffffff
Text-box stretches
three columns; left
aligned
Horizontal bar -
#ec7426;
40 Opacity
Number of
columns - 4
Positioned in the
lower half of the
page, refer tem-
plate.
Text left-aligned
just below the
horizontal bar
Appropriate CC
License; center-
aligned
0.5 in
0.5 in (In case of
landscape and
square orientations,
license is aligned
towards the bottom
of the main text
box.)
Landscape
Square
Portrait
Notes
Navigating the template
The template has alternative layouts for different
page sizes and orientations. This can be assessed
from the ‘Pages’ tab in the right panel.
There are alternate layouts for sizes A5(portrait),
A4 (portrait, landscape and square, and
A3(portrait, landscape, and square).
The template makes use of the InDesign liquid
layout features. So if a student wants to work
on a custom-sized document, they can make
use of these features which can be assessed by
Layout>Liquid Layout. It should be noted that
liquid layout features can optimize the work but
some manual work might still be needed to fix
the layout on custom-sized pages.
Typography
The document makes use of the typeface
Montserrat. The files for the font can be found in
the folder ‘Fonts’.
Heading
The page headings for each page are set in
Montserrat Bold.
Although, the type size is accurately set using the
liquid layout features if a student wants to tweak
the following range can be referred to.
A5 - 14pt -18pt
A4 - 20pt - 24pt
A3 - 30pt - 36pt
Body Copy
The body copy on all pages is set in Montserrat
Regular.
Although, the type size is accurately set using the
liquid layout features if a student wants to tweak
the following range can be referred to.
A5 - 8pt - 10pt
A4 -12pt - 16pt
A3 -18pt - 22pt
