Give Your Book a
Cover Readers Trust
Cover and interior designed by people who design for bookstores, not templates.
Four pieces of one visual system.
Designed together, so the cover and the pages agree with each other.
Cover design
A distinctive front, spine and back, designed around your book.
Interior typesetting
Readable typography, spacing, chapter styling and page structure.
Illustration integration
Artwork placed naturally inside the reading experience.
Digital adaptation
The same visual system, rebuilt for a reflowable edition.
Stand out at thumbnail size. Hold up in print.
Readers meet your book as a tiny image on a screen, then hold it as an object. It has to work in both.
THUMBNAILEBOOKPAPERBACKDifferent books need different pages.
Fiction, nonfiction, memoir and illustrated titles each get their own typographic treatment. The design serves the reading experience the genre needs.
Fiction
Quiet typography. Comfortable rhythm. Clear chapter openings.
Non-fiction
Clear hierarchy, callouts and tables that guide the reader.
Memoir
Warm pages with room for photographs and captions.
Illustrated
Artwork and text composed together, spread by spread.
A simple creative process.
Creative brief
Genre, audience, references, tone.
Design direction
The first visual concepts, side by side.
Refinement
Typography, imagery, layout, your feedback.
Production
Files prepared for the formats you are publishing.
Designed for the book you are actually publishing.
Six variables that change the final file. None of them set generically.
Trim size
Chosen with the printer and the genre in mind.
Bleed & margins
Set per platform, never guessed.
Spine width
Calculated from page count and paper stock.
Image resolution
300 DPI minimum on every print asset.
Cover file
Front, spine and back as a single print-ready PDF.
Digital build
Reflowable, and device-tested separately.
Four files, ready to upload.
Print cover
Front, spine and back in one PDF
Formatted interior
Typeset pages, print-ready
Digital cover
Sized for every store listing
Upload-ready files
Named and packaged per platform