The Times Literary Supplement
New Design and Sizes from Issue Date 5th September 2025
Editor: Martin Ivens
Year Founded: 1902
Appears fortnightly, on Friday
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Specifications:
Colour Space: CMYK
Colour Profile (icc): ISOnewspaper26v4.icc
Resolution: 200dpi
Bleed: none
Crop Marks: none
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TLS Copy Deadlines
Main Book
5pm Friday prior
TLS Column Widths
Max Page Height: 300mm
1 col: 55mm
2 col: 116mm
3 col: 176mm
4 col: 237mm
TLS Ad Sizes
Sections at this size:
TLS Main Book
Full Page (with bleed)
Trim: H 333mm x W 265mm
Bleed (5mm Top+Bottom, 10mm L+R): H 343mm x W 285mm
Type Area: H 313mm x W 245mm
Full Page (non bleed)
H 300mm x W 237mm
Half Page (with bleed)
Trim: H 166mm x W 265mm
Bleed (0mm Top, 5mm Bottom, 10mm L+R): H 171mm x W 285mm
Type Area: H 157mm x W 245mm
half page (non bleed)
H 148mm x W 237mm
DPS (with Bleed)
Trim: H 333mm x W 530mm
Bleed (5mm Top+Bottom, 10mm L+R): H 343mm x W 550mm
Type Area: H 313mm x W 510mm
leave central 12mm clear of any t&cs for gutter
Sent as ONE file.
DPS (non Bleed)
H 300mm x W 500mm
leave central 12mm clear of any t&cs for gutter
Sent as ONE file.
Mini Page (22x3)
H 220mm x W 176mm
Half Page vertical (30x2)
H 300mm x W 116mm
Quarter Page
H 148mm x W 116mm
12x2
H 120mm x W 116mm
12x4
H 120mm x W 237mm