InDesign templates are a great way to get inspired and start up your projects quickly. In this post, you'll find our top picks for 2022, where to find more, and how to create your own InDesign template. We've categorized all the best templates so you can easily find what you want and start customizing.
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This first section offers exclusively free templates, but don't despair if you can't find what you are looking for, some other free options have been added also on other sections of this post, and you can always use our search functionality at the very end of this post.
Showcase your content elegantly with this modern and clutter-free magazine template. Perfect for fashion, lifestyle, and art publications.
Present your captivating photographs in style. This portfolio template offers a sleek and contemporary design to highlight your visual talent.
Embark on a visual journey with this travel-themed magazine template. Ideal for sharing exciting travel experiences and breathtaking destinations.
Unleash your creativity with this versatile template, combining the best of a brochure and a magazine layout. Perfect for any business or project.
Make a striking impression with this unique business proposal template. The monochromatic palette with a splash of lime exudes sophistication.
Classic meets contemporary in this monochrome magazine template. Ideal for showcasing art, photography, and minimalist designs.
Satisfy your sweet tooth with this delightful dessert cookbook template. Easy-to-use and perfect for sharing your delectable recipes.
Small but powerful! This compact brochure template lets you pack a punch with essential information and captivating visuals.
Stand out from the crowd with this innovative project proposal template. Impress potential clients with a fresh and creative approach.
A flexible and adaptable magazine template for various topics and industries. Enjoy the ease of customization and design possibilities.
Organize your favorite recipes in this beautiful cookbook template. Ideal for food bloggers, chefs, and anyone who loves to cook.
Amazing typography and an entire column about you. This resume is perfect for someone with a bold personality.
Perfect for designer roles. It comes with a template to showcase your best preview jobs.
Applying for an executive role? This is the right way to introduce yourself.
Very clean and very easy to check. This resume tells your personal work story in the best way.
Minimal, with nice and bold typography.
Elegant and with a strong style this resume template will make you stand out from all the other candidates.
A single page with a strong typographic style resume. Probably the most elegant and clean CV I've ever seen.
If you couldn't find the right resume, you should check our list of the best InDesign resume templates - you'll find the best 100 resumes I found online divided into two sections (one is dedicated to FREE InDesign resume templates).
A simple and clean layout, easy to adapt to your content (source: Adobe Stock).
Easy to read typography. Nice use of the white space. This InDesign template probably is the best choice for your ePubs and books.
An elegant, small layout format for novels and works of poetry.
When I saw this template, I thought it was coming directly from the public library. It's the perfect choice for narrative books and novels.
Are you looking for something a little more modern? Here we are. Lots of space to images and clean, thin typography (source: Adobe Stock).
Are you publishing a Japanese book? Here you have the most iconic of all the templates.
With a lot of space for pictures. With some pages in black and some in white, this template is great for a photography or painting book.
Nice space for the pictures. White space. Terrific typography. This InDesign template has everything you need to create an amazing cook book.
You can find even more alternatives in our new post 50 Best InDesign Book Templates and 50 Fresh InDesign Cookbook Templates- I`ve dedicated hours and hours into going through versatile templates selections and came up with the best 50 Book and 50 Cookbook Templates! I hope it helps!
Minimal, with pastel colors, this template helps you create the most elegant of the brochures.
This brochure is the perfect fit to introduce a new product to the market. Nice use of the space, many different page templates and a lot of space for images.
Suitable for many varieties of industries, use this template to talk about your business.
Surely one of my favourite InDesign templates! With a strong personality and great combinations of Fonts, this template works perfectly for fashion designers, photographers, architects, food stylists or any creative project.
Are you marketing a local business? Look no further. This product presentation has everything you need and can be easily personalized to any industry and products.
Lot of space for images, nice balance between titles, quotes and body-text, feminine – this InDesign template is the perfect brochure for any fashion product.
You can find even more alternatives in our new post 100 Best InDesign Brochure Templates - I`ve dedicated hours and hours into going through versatile templates selections and came up with the best 100 InDesign brochure templates! I hope it helps! Additionally, here are the top 10 brochure design software options to help you.
Are you hungry, yet? Clear structure for ingredients and step-by-step instructions combined with a lot of space for images. Your readers will be very hungry when you publish your food magazine using this template (source: link).
The colors and lettering used in this template give is quite a sophisticated look – it fits an art publication perfectly.
Clean, minimalist, and modern. An amazing job that gives you lots of ideas on how to use pictures in your publication. Each page looks astonishing and the content is the main protagonist in this InDesign template. This is for sure one of the best InDesign templates I found online!
Many different page templates, easy to read typography, a great solution for a landscape magazine.
The lettering and the use of space are measured so that the reader attention is on the pictures. This template works great with art and architecture magazines.
The magazine as you know it. A very classic layout but with an original and contemporary look.
Forty pages of layout combinations in this template. You can use it for almost any kind of publication.
Quite text-oriented, the structure of this template reminds me of when, as a kid, I used to wait for my mom at the hair salon and all I had to kill time was: beauty magazines. No kids were harmed.
If your target is young people, this might be the perfect choice for your magazine layout.
If you couldn't find the right magazine template, you should check our list of the best InDesign magazine (and zine) templates - you'll find the best 80 templates I found online!
Amazing use of the page and the contrast between content and white space add movement to the entire design. The attention is completely directed to the pictures and the reader eyes are automatically glued to the content.
A little more space for text in this layout. The feeling is less art-oriented, and more travel. Use this template to tell a story or about a place.
A layout with a strong personality. Add your text and black and white pictures for an amazing publication.
Show what you can do. This template is perfect to display your past work.
Here you can find a new list of the best InDesign portfolio templates divided into three groups: portfolio templates for Designers/Creatives, Photographers, and Agencies.
If you are looking for an architecture portfolio, here you'll find the 50 best InDesign Architecture Portfolio Templatesthere are online.
My idea was to not include business cards, but while searching for other templates, I found two templates that I really liked and so here they are.
This template, in two variants, is perfect for anything like a barbershop, a shoe shop, a hair saloon, or even a photographer. If you can summarize your job with a beautiful picture, this is the template I would choose.
This is actually a bundle of creative templates, and it contains 10 geometric business card alternatives that are perfect for any office worker or freelance.
You can find even more alternatives in our new post 100 Fresh InDesign Business Card Templates - I`ve dedicated hours and hours into going through versatile templates selections and came up with the best 100 Business Card Templates! I hope it helps!
Well organized and clean, it also includes a roll-up banner.
More dynamic, this is the perfect choice for promoting high-end estate.
Great example of what a corporate flyer needs. Main value proposal in the center, three pluses or insights right below, and your contact information.
Are you seeking a more unique appearance to your flyer? Creative layout in combination with distinctive color combination will give you that wow-effect.
Another creative proposal, really nice use of the space and images, and impressive choice of colors.
Modern, elegant and on-trend. This flyer is a nice-fit to market an art exhibition.
This template works great for any kind of event. Replace the text and the central image and you are ready to go.
This template is perfect for your local market or many other green events.
A clean layout with nice geometric design elements ready to describe a new product or talk about your business.
Dynamic, with more space inside for text – it's a great fit to explain your business services (source: Adobe Stock).
Nice trifold, perfect to promote a course or an art exhibition.
Fresh and clean. A great choice for your bio café or small restaurant.
This trifold looks very elegant and professional. A perfect start for illustrating your business and your services.
You can find even more alternatives in our new post 100 Best InDesign Brochure Templates - I`ve dedicated hours and hours into going through versatile templates selections and came up with the best 100 InDesign brochure templates. Inside there is a section dedicated to trifold templates! I hope it helps!
Working on a newspaper? Use the most classical of the styles and download this old-school template for InDesign.
You can find even more alternatives in our new post 30 Sleek Newspaper Templates - I`ve dedicated hours and hours into going through versatile templates selections and came up with the best 30 Newspaper Templates! I hope you'll find what you are looking for!
Modern, with nice layout combinations. This template is a very nice start for an annual report or a business presentation.
Very elegant template. Nice use of the main color, the templates include many combinations of layout that will help you adapt this template to your content very easily.
A very clean and elegant layout that makes your document easy to read. A perfect template to document the progress of your organization.
Very interesting use of lines and geometric forms in this InDesign template. More dynamic than the reports above, it gives your document more of a magazine look.
If you couldn't find the right template, you should check our list of the best Business Report templates - you'll find the best 60 templates I found online!
Dynamic, with several nice combinations of design. It's the perfect template to list your products and show them in context.
Suitable for food, fashion, lifestyle, adventure, property, and many other industries, this template works perfectly to show off your products in a wholesale catalog.
A very simple layout that adapts to any need. Its structure makes it easy to use with data merge. See here how to use Data Merge in InDesign.
This catalog template looks wonderful. Very clean, with nice use of space and typography, it can be adapted to many different industries.
A clean layout with many ideas on how to use your pictures. It's the perfect template to use in InDesign for creating a fashion catalog.
You can find more Catalog Templates in our new post 50 Fresh InDesign Catalog Templates.
Another really nice template. It works perfectly as a workbook to train students and workers (source: Simple Classroom Workbook Layout).
Very minimal, quick to read, it adapts to any café or restaurant.
This template is perfect for those restaurants that offer more traditional fare with a homemade taste.
I found these two ideas and I really liked them so I thought about giving them some space in this post. These two last InDesign templates might be quite helpful if you are a freelance designer or work in an agency.
Creating a document that shows how a website or application will work is a very clever idea. This template has everything you'll need to create an astonishing presentation, make sure everybody agrees on the project and looks more professional.
Brand identity is very important, it ensures that your message will be consistent and have the same look. This template is a nice start for building your brand identity manual, and it gives you a few examples of what the document should contain.
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A template is a document that when opened, it opens as a new untitled document. If you often reuse the same layout you should consider starting from a template.
Create your document directly in InDesign and then save it as “InDesign CC template” (InDesign will create an .indt file).
Make sure your template is created using the best practices because some other designers in the future might need to use your InDesign template!
Two things I’d suggest you learn better before creating your own templates are master pages and how InDesign paragraph styles work.
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Article byStefano Bernardi is the Co-founder of Redokun. For the past 11 years, Stefano has been an active contributor to the InDesign community and the translation management industry.
His work focuses on assisting marketing managers in simplifying complex translation processes, enabling them to speed up the translation of marketing materials up to three times faster.
