Yearbook Template — Complete Guide

Yearbook turns your invitation into a school yearbook. The page opens on a padded cover in your school colour with a foil-stamped crest, your event name and your class year, and inside, on matte paper, every section starts at a divider tab: class photos in a tidy portrait grid, superlative cards with ribbons, a varsity scoreboard counting down, a class schedule and a reply card that says Sign my yearbook.

Yearbook is one of Fotify's simpler, modern designs: its look comes from your two school colours — any two at all — a cover material and a crest.

This guide covers how Yearbook looks, the options unique to it, how to apply it to your event, and how it lays out each section of your invitation.

Yearbook is available on every plan, Free included.

For an overview of the template gallery and the picker, see How to Customize Your RSVP Invitation.

What makes Yearbook different

Standard templates change colours and fonts over the same shared layout. Yearbook replaces the layout itself: its own cover and back cover, its own section heads, and its own treatment of the message, countdown, gallery, story and schedule.

Signature design elements

• Your school colours, any two — a school colour and a trim colour, from the classic school pairs or from the colour picker
• A padded yearbook cover — padded leather with stitching, woven book cloth or varsity felt with a trim border, with a spine and metal corner guards
• Foil stamping — the crest, your event name and your class year stamped in your trim colour; a sheen passes over the class year once when the page opens
• Divider tabs — every section starts at a small tab in your school colour on a ruled line, like the dividers of a yearbook
• Class photos — your gallery as a grid of uniform portrait photos
• Superlatives and milestones — each story moment on the same card, with a ribbon in your trim colour carrying its date
• A varsity scoreboard — the countdown in lit digits on a dark board
• Sign my yearbook — the RSVP title in marker handwriting with doodled stars, over a reply card lying on a second page set down slightly crooked
• Always readable — whatever colours you pick, Yearbook adjusts the shade only where text sits on them, so every label, button and title stays clearly legible

When to choose Yearbook

Yearbook suits celebrations built around a class, a school or the years you shared:

• Graduation parties — high school, college or university, in your school's own colours. See parties
• Class reunions — five, ten or twenty-five years on, with Class of and your year on the cover. Reunions are where guests bring the most old photos, so pair it with photo sharing
• Milestone birthdays with a throwback theme — a "Class of 1986" fortieth. See birthdays
• Alumni, team and club events — a sports team's end-of-season party, an alumni night or a staff farewell, in the team or company colours picked exactly with Pick any color

For other playful looks, try Confetti for a sticker party, Instant for instant photos pinned to a board or Gazette for a vintage newspaper.

Applying Yearbook to your event

1. Open your event, click Invitation in the sidebar, then the Invitation tab
2. In Design Template, click Change template if the gallery is collapsed, and find Yearbook under Designs (it is listed under the Graduation filter, and under Party, Birthday and Corporate too)
3. Optional: press Try it on to see Yearbook with your own invitation details in the live preview — nothing is saved until you press Use this design
4. Or click the Yearbook card to apply it straight away
5. Open Yearbook options below the gallery to pick your school colours and the other options described below. Changes save automatically

Yearbook works on every plan. On free events a small "Made with Fotify" badge appears in the bottom corner of the invitation; any paid plan or an active subscription removes it.

Switching to another template later is non-destructive: your event content stays exactly as you entered it, and your Yearbook options are kept in case you switch back.

Yearbook options

Yearbook has eight options of its own. They take the place of the standard colour and font controls, which Yearbook doesn't use.

1. School colour

The yearbook cover and back cover, the rules and tabs of every section, and the buttons. Pick it two ways:

• A suggested swatch — Maroon (default), Navy, Forest, Royal, Black or Purple
• Pick any color — the last chip opens your device's colour picker, so you can match your school's exact colour. The colour's code is shown beside the chips

2. Trim colour

Your second school colour: the foil stamped on the covers, the ribbons on the superlative cards, the scoreboard lights, the big quote marks and the doodled stars. Pick it the same way:

• A suggested swatch — Gold (default), Ivory, Orange, Red, Silver or Kelly
• Pick any color — any colour from your device's colour picker

The suggested swatches make the classic pairs: maroon and gold, navy and ivory, forest and gold, royal and orange, black and red. Any pair works. Where your trim colour would be hard to read on your school colour, the foil is lightened (or deepened) just enough, keeping its hue. A trim colour almost as pale as the paper (ivory, white) can't stand out on the inside pages, so there the quote marks, the doodled stars and the fine lines under the tabs take your school colour instead. A very mid-toned school colour is moved slightly lighter or darker on the cover so the foil always has room to stand out.

3. Cover material

• Padded leather (default) — a soft padded cover with a fine grain and stitching around the edge
• Book cloth — a flat, woven cloth with a debossed frame
• Varsity felt — a soft felt with a double border in your trim colour

4. Crest

The emblem stamped on the cover, the back cover and the scoreboard:

• Shield (default) — a shield with a chevron and a star
• Laurel wreath — two laurel branches around a star
• Varsity star — a star in a double ring

5. Class year

Stamped large on the cover (up to 12 characters) — for example "Class of 2016" or just "2006". Leave it blank and the cover shows no year: Yearbook never works one out from your event date.

6. Message style

• Letter (default) — your invitation message as a note from the class committee, on a sheet under a double rule in your school colours, sealed with your crest
• Senior quote — your message set large in italics between two big quote marks in your trim colour. A long message steps down to a comfortable reading size

7. Cover line

The small line at the top of the cover (up to 60 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("Yearbook edition"). Try "Ten-year reunion", "Lincoln High" or "Graduation party".

8. Closing title

The line on the back cover at the end of the page (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("Class dismissed. See you there!").

Every piece of text Yearbook shows on the invitation — the cover line, the Date, Time and Place labels, the Save my spot buttons, the section tabs and titles, the scoreboard labels, the schedule's column headings, the closing title — can also be rewritten directly on the page: switch the live preview into edit mode and double-click the text. Section titles you have already set in their own settings (story, countdown, gifts, where to stay, getting there, FAQs) are edited in place the same way.

How each section is treated

Cover

A padded yearbook cover replaces the standard header, with a spine along one edge, metal guards on its four corners and a stitched, debossed or trimmed border. Foil-stamped on it, centred:

• Cover line (option 7)
• The crest (option 4)
• Your event name in a classic serif. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
• Your class year (option 5), large, in a varsity typeface — only when you have filled it in
• Date, Time and Place — the time follows the Show time setting of your invitation's cover, the date and place follow Show date and Show location, and every guest sees the date you picked, whatever their time zone
• Save my spot — a button that scrolls to the RSVP form. It only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page
• Your cover photo, tipped into a window on the cover, keeping the horizontal crop you set. Without a cover photo the cover simply ends with the button

Section heads

Each section starts at a divider: its label on a small tab in your school colour standing on a ruled line (with a fine line in your trim colour under it), then the title and, for the story and gifts, your subtitle or gift message.

Message

Your invitation message as a letter from the class committee, or as a senior quote between big quote marks (option 6).

Countdown

A varsity scoreboard: a dark board in a deep shade of your school colour, with a row of lights and your crest along the top and one lit panel per unit — days, hours, minutes and (if you switch them on) seconds — with its name underneath. On a phone, four panels sit in two rows of two. When the countdown ends, your completion message appears on the board instead.

Gallery (Carousel)

Your photos as class photos: a grid of uniform portrait crops in a thin paper mount — three per row on a phone, four on a tablet and five on wider screens. A short last row is centred.

Story

Superlatives and milestones: each milestone is the same card, with a ribbon across its top carrying the date (a star when the milestone has no date), the photo in a mount, the title in italics like a yearbook superlative ("Most likely to…") and the description. Every milestone is laid out the same way; one without a photo is simply a shorter card. One per row on a phone, two or three per row on wider screens. Your story subtitle appears under the section title.

Itinerary

A class schedule: each day opens with a tab carrying the date, followed by a timetable with Period, Time and Class columns. Each entry is a numbered period with its time, the event, the place with a pin and any note.

Location, Gifts, Event Details, Save the Date and RSVP

These five sections share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs (Meridian, Thread, Prism, Duotone and Confetti), dressed in Yearbook's paper, school colour and typefaces: paper cards with slightly rounded corners and buttons in your school colour.

• Location — a map card beside an address card with your address, your directions and an Open in Maps button. When a map can't be shown, the map card draws a pin with the venue's coordinates; without coordinates the address card spans the row
• Gifts — every registry, payment option, charity and wishlist item is its own card in a grid, grouped under small labels (with a count) when you offer more than one kind. Payment details sit in an inset box with a Copy button, and long account numbers or wallet addresses wrap inside the card. Pay links, scan-to-pay QR codes and wishlist reservations appear as buttons on each card
• Event Details — a card per topic: dress code with your suggested and avoided colours as swatches (in their real colours), where to stay with each hotel as a mini-card (distance, price range, promo code, notes and a Book button), getting there with an icon for each kind of transport, and a full-width FAQ card where each question opens on tap
• Save the Date (Calendar) — one card with the title and the event date on one side, and Google, Apple (downloads the calendar file) and Outlook buttons on the other
• RSVP — Sign my yearbook in marker handwriting with doodled stars, your RSVP deadline under it, and the reply form on a card with a rule in your school colour, lying on a second page that is set down slightly crooked behind it. The form itself stays straight, so every field lines up. On a save-the-date page, the card holds the save-the-date note instead of the form

Closing

The back cover: the same material and corner guards as the front, with your crest, your closing title (option 8), the date and place, and a final Save my spot button.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Yearbook's style:

• Photo upload, QR code, Table assignment, Playlist, Sub-events, Special treatments and custom sections

Each sits in the same column as the rest of the page on a paper card with a rule in your school colour across its top, with titles in Yearbook's serif and buttons in your school colour. Photos in custom sections are capped in height so a tall portrait never takes over the page. Photos your guests upload are shown as they are.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can I use my school's exact colours? A: Yes. Pick each one with Pick any color in School colour and Trim colour. If a colour is too pale or too dark for the text that sits on it, Yearbook shifts its shade just enough to fix that, keeping the hue.

Q: Where does the class year on the cover come from? A: Only from the Class year option. Yearbook never works a year out from your event date; leave the option blank and the cover shows no year.

Q: Does Yearbook work for a reunion that isn't for one school year? A: Yes. Leave Class year blank, or write something like "Since 1998" (up to 12 characters), and use the Cover line for the group's name.

Q: Can my guests share their old photos? A: Yes. Show the Photo upload section on your invitation and, once you start your event, guests can add their pictures from the page. See Understanding Invitations vs. Photo Uploads for when uploads open.

Q: Can I stop the sheen on the class year? A: It plays once when the page opens and never again. Guests whose device is set to reduce motion see the cover still.

Q: Does Yearbook work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the spine and the divider tabs move to the other side, the ribbons point the other way and the reply card tilts the other way. The cover photo's crop stays as you set it.

Q: Can I use custom RSVP fields with Yearbook? A: Yes. Custom fields (dropdowns, dates, checkboxes, file uploads and so on) pick up Yearbook's fields and labels automatically.

Next steps

• See How to Customize Your RSVP Invitation for the template gallery and how to try a design on before applying it
• Compare the other picker-coloured designs: Confetti for a sticker party in two colours, Duotone for a two-ink poster or Prism for soft gradient light
• For other nostalgic looks, try Instant or Gazette
• Planning a graduation party or a reunion? Read about Fotify for parties, birthdays and digital invitations with RSVP

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