Cover Designs
Choose from 8 basic designs, and combine your choice with one of 16 solid color backgrounds, 8 textured paper backgrounds, or 12 patterns from nature, for a cover as distinctive as your book. Or design your own, using our cover design guidelines.
Choose a cover design, choose a background, add a graphic (or not; it’s up to you), add your cover text, and you have a cover customized to suit your book and your style. Or create your cover from scratch if you like—just follow our cover design specifications.
| Choose from 9 basic cover designs | |
 Design 1 A clean, simple layout with your graphic centered on front cover. Works with any of our solid color or patterned background options. See larger view |
 Design 2 A large square graphic anchors the front cover, with bleeds to bottom and right. Works with any of our solid color or patterned background options. See larger view |
 Design 3 If your cover graphic is tall and narrow, this layout gives it maximum visibility. Can be combined with any of our solid color or patterned background options. See larger view |
 Design 4 Your square graphic wraps around from back cover to half of front cover, pairing with a bar at right to highlight your title. Works with most of our background options. See larger view |
 Design 5 An elegant all-type layout. Combines best with solid colors and subtle pattern backgrounds, but can work with any. Lighter color box on front cover will be a solid color: a lighter version of background if it is color-only, coordinating solid color if background is patterned. See larger view |
 Design 6 Use either your full-cover graphic or any of our backgrounds with this simple classic centered-type layout. See larger view |
 Design 7 Large type set flush-right gives a clean modern look. Use either your full-cover graphic or any of our backgrounds with this layout. See larger view |
 Design 8 Your original graphic sets the color scheme for this contemporary design. Solid color blocks wrap around the cover, in colors pulled from your artwork. See larger view |
| Choose from one of our background options | |
Solid colors Choose from 16 different colors |
Decorative papers Choose from 8 handmade papers and parchments |
Patterns from nature Choose from 12 evocative natural images |
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Files to download
Author Guide
Complete submission guidelines
Look at the Books
Sample pages and cover designs
