What Are The Types Of Brochure Folds?

You might have seen all kinds of folders for different applications with different templates and types of folds. Based on the amount of information and kind of service you are wishing to promote, you can choose a type of fold. For example, a hospital brochure design needs to be multifold and designed in a way that you can place it on reception counters and waiting rooms at various departments in the hospital. If you plan on mass distribution of hospital brochures by sending them along with newspapers or other mediums, you need to make an excellent hospital brochure design for a flyer or leaflet print.

Let us look at a few of the brochure types based on the brochure fold pattern:

Open gate fold brochure: These brochures have inward folding which helps you carry them around easily. The most common size of a gatefold brochure is usually 9” X 11”. This kind of brochures is usually used to display menus, creative designs, designs that have layouts and need to display architectural information.

Bi-fold brochure: As the name suggests, this brochure is a single sheet of paper folded in half. There are 4 sections on this brochure. The cover page, the back cover, and the two inner pages. This brochure is usually used to display pricing information, product display and information and other applications where services of some kind need to be marketed.

Tri-fold brochure: There are three inner sections in this brochure. Along with the outer three sections, this type of brochure has six sections or pages in all. This is somewhat similar to the bi-fold brochure but has more sections where more content and images can be displayed and viewed.

Flyers: Flyers or leaflets as they are commonly called, these brochures are single-page information providers. All the information about the product or service is displayed on the front and back page of this brochure, Moreover, this brochure is a very cost-optimized pattern where only a few images and required content is there on the brochure. Mostly these brochures are used to distribute large quantities of brochures through different medium.