Paper choice changes your cover
Spine width depends on paper stock, so switching paper after designing a cover invalidates it.
What to do
- Cream is the thickest stock, then colour, then white.
- Decide paper before finalising cover artwork; a changed spine shifts the whole wrap.
- Re-run the calculator after any change to page count or paper.
Compare paper stocks, free — no account needed, no upload, the answer in the page.Or compare paper stocks in the workspace to save it against a book.