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Design Studio for Gutenberg

WordPress builds pages.
DSG designs them.

Professional designer tools inside WP Gutenberg.
Type. Art. Composition. Complete control over your page.

No limits: DSG never expires. Build unlimited sites.

Rethink
the Web.

The power of a professional page builder.
But inside WP Gutenberg.

DSG: Three Gutenberg blocks that will reinvent high-end publishing. Type Director, Art Director and Composition Blocks.

DSG: Three Gutenberg blocks that will reinvent high-end publishing. Type Director, Art Director and Composition Blocks.

Precise type controls:
True Kerning, Tracking, Leading and Baseline Shift.
Finally, the type controls of QuarkXpress or InDesign.
Fully enabled for familiar keyboard commands.

Professional
Typography
Inside Gutenberg

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Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible and readable when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing, letter spacing, and spaces between pairs of letters. The term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process. Type design is a closely related craft, sometimes considered part of typography; most typographers do not design typefaces, and some type designers do not consider themselves.

Precise type controls:
True Kerning, Tracking, Leading and Baseline Shift.

Professional
Typography
Inside Gutenberg

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Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible and readable when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing, letter spacing, and spaces between pairs of letters. The term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process. Type design is a closely related craft, sometimes considered part of typography; most typographers do not design typefaces, and some type designers do not consider themselves.

• Actual Multi-Layer import of PS and Krita files
• Built-in Blend controls & effects like Drop Shadows
• Massive control of Scale, Rotation, Position

Like an image editor
Layers, Blends, Effects
Inside Gutenberg

Professional image controls:
Art layers, effects, per-layer shadows, layer Blending modes.

Composition Freedom
Structureless placement

• Instant Full Width Section/Container
• Simple Height Control Slider Setting
• True Free-Form Design Space (block-free)

Stop stacking blocks. Start composing pages.

DSG: Design Freedom. Finally.

Templates are for Webmasters. But you, dear friend, are a Designer.
Blank Canvas gives you a clean page with no inherited layout telling you where things belong. Start with nothing, then place type, imagery and compositions where you want them. No template or theme hassles. No somebody-else’s-design to fight. Just the page and your ideas. As it should be.

We were amazed how hard this was to achieve. So we built our own.

Design Freedom starts with a
Blank Canvas

STudio Serif is a high-contrast Didone face, in the tradition of Bodoni. Beautiful, elegant, and notoriously unforgiving. Faces like this demand careful kerning and spacing. Set them casually, and they quickly fall apart. That has made great Didone typography surprisingly difficult to use well on the web.

Type Director changes that. With true kerning, tracking, leading and character-level control, Studio Serif can finally be set with the care it deserves — right inside Gutenberg.

As a thank-you for being here at the beginning!

Great type deserves great tools.
Now you can have both.

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Our font design, and our gift to you. INCLUDED FREE – FOR A LIMITED TIME
Studio Serif. A Founders Gift.
A classic Didone, made practical for the web.

DSG: New user interface and designer-oriented controls throughout.

GUI / Edit Mode

X/Y Rulers on Stage
Guides from rulers
Grid System Display
Full Work-Screen Support
Dark Mode (in dev.)
Visibility States (DT/Tab/Ph)

Designer Dashboard

Master Pages
Font Controls/Loader
Design Library
System-Wide Settings
Preflight Site Checks
Faster page navigation

Unlimited Sites
DSG doesn’t put a meter on your career. You bought the tool. Use it as much as you want.

Price? So affordable, you’ll be tempted to email us for confirmation. But please don’t.
Available late October 2026.

Try Design Studio Right Now!

We are about to end our beta testing, and DSG will be available for what we
are calling Founders Memberships. These will be astonishingly affordable.

CLICK FOR DEMO:

Design Studio for Gutenberg DEMO

NOTE: The DEMO also includes a lot of our features that didn’t fit here.

DSG is a WordPress plugin — what we call a System-wide Plugin. Unlike those that add a single block or feature, DSG works across Gutenberg, addressing many of the design limitations that have frustrated designers. Your theme stays your theme. Gutenberg stays Gutenberg. DSG simply gives you more control. We think you’ll like it.

Not at all! And that is the beauty of it, because Gutenberg has a lot of great capabilities we really want to keep. Did you know that a Gutenberg page is lighter and loads much faster than those from page builders?

YES! DSG adds capabilities, it doesn’t take any away. We regularly use DSG with Core Gutenberg and Kadence blocks. We have not seen any problems.

As many as you want! Seriously, we do not put any arbitrary cap on your production. In fact, we think that’s nuts. Use it to make one site, 50 sites, 5,000 sites. You bought it, now use it. Enjoy!

Almost nothing! You bought it, it will keep working on old, and even new sites. But you will not be eligible for upgrades or support.

We hate people that make designers learn code! Everything in DSG has normal interface controls, and even powerful keyboard commands. You can still use code in Gutenberg if you like, but not in DSG.

Both! As mentioned, DSG ADDS capabilities. So it can be added to any site you want.

We continue to work to make the removal of DSG as elegant as possible. But there are hard limits to removing any structural WP plugins. Which is why the DSG version you bought or upgraded to never expires.

YES! A full manual comes with your download of DSG. We are also planning an entire library of YouTube videos to step users through all of the new tools it adds.

YES! In fact, we made that super-easy for you. Click the DEMO button just above, and you will be brought to a real WP site with DSG fully installed and ready to go. There are some limitations, like no saving.

YES, we think so! Page builders were built to make website construction easier. DSG was created to turn Gutenberg into the expressive design tool you always wanted. If you cut your teeth on Quark, InDesign and Photoshop, you should feel right at home.

DSG was created by an award-winning Manhattan NY design shop that has produced print and web for companies like American Express, Miller Beer, Lincoln Center, Saturday Night Live, Merck Pharma, the NY MTA and others. DSG includes many of their own proprietary tools that have allowed them to create the top-quality sites those companies demand.

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Design Studio for Gutenberg is a new product. It has been extensively tested. But we strongly suggest that you put it through your own QA tests before using it in critical production. Note that images are for example and may not reflect the current tool layouts of DSG. ©2026 Open Studio | NY GL Media