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