Margin Notes
A notebook-paper book with a hot-pink highlighter swipe behind each title, taped and clipped photos and handwritten notes.
Margin Notes looks like a well-used notebook. Pages are crumpled lined, graph and dotted paper, photos are held by tape and paper clips, and index cards and sticky notes carry the captions. A hot-pink highlighter swipe sits behind every title, and handwritten notes and doodles fill the margins. Below is the full sample book, with a placeholder image in every frame.
Every page of the book
The cover, every spread and the back cover. Class pages repeat for each class in your school.
Cover 
Pages 2 and 3 
Pages 4 and 5 
Pages 6 and 7 
Pages 8 and 9 
Pages 10 and 11 
Pages 12 and 13 
Pages 14 and 15 
Pages 16 and 17 
Pages 18 and 19 
Pages 20 and 21 
Pages 22 and 23 
Pages 24 and 25 
Pages 26 and 27 
Pages 28 and 29 
Pages 30 and 31 
Pages 32 and 33 
Pages 34 and 35 
Pages 36 and 37 
Pages 38 and 39 
Pages 40 and 41 
Pages 42 and 43 
Pages 44 and 45 
Pages 46 and 47 
Pages 48 and 49 
Back cover
Backgrounds
Papers and scenes to rotate through your pages, all in the Margin Notes palette.
Style guide
The fonts and colors Margin Notes is built from. In Canva, any of them can be changed to suit your school.
Suggested typefaces
Color palette
- Green pen
#0a8f50 - Paper
#fbfaf6 - Paper shadow
#e6e3da - Ink black
#101014 - Graphite
#33333c - Hot highlighter
#e0129f - Cobalt pen
#2447e6 - White
#ffffff
Style guide pages
Style guide, page 1 
Style guide, page 2
What is included
Margin Notes is a Canva yearbook template for elementary schools: a complete design with a cover, class pages, event pages and a back cover, free for any Rethink school. Its photo frames are empty, and your team puts its own photos in them.
- A cover and a back cover
- 42 page layouts across class, event, club and memory pages
- Class pages in 5 sizes, from 12 to 28 portraits plus the teacher
- 14 backgrounds
- A style guide (2 pages), a named palette of 8 colors and two suggested typefaces
- A Canva design your whole committee can edit at once, and recolor for your school
- $0 for a Rethink school, along with the page libraries and First Draft
Who it suits: Schools that want a casual, hand-made look, with a notebook, study or sketch feel and plenty of room for notes.
How to use Margin Notes
- Look through every page of the sample book above, including the backgrounds and style guide where the template has them.
- A Rethink school gets the full design as a Canva file that the whole committee can open and edit at once.
- Put your team’s photos into the empty frames and repeat the class pages for each class in your school.
- Change colors, fonts and layouts to suit your school, or ask for the free First Draft and have Rethink build the first version for you to edit.
Margin Notes, answered
What colors does Margin Notes use?
Paper, Paper shadow, Ink black and Graphite, with Hot highlighter pink, Green pen and Cobalt pen as the accents.
What kinds of paper are in Margin Notes?
Crumpled lined, graph and dotted notebook paper, plus index cards and sticky notes.
Can we change Margin Notes' colors?
Yes. It is a Canva design, so the colors, fonts and layouts can all be changed to suit your school.
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Every child is in the shared school pages of a Rethink yearbook, and families who choose personalization get pages built around their own child’s class and grade.