Book Covers Design
Affordable Book Cover Design. We can design a compelling cover for your book.
We start the cover design process by asking you a lot of questions: Do you have an illustration or photo you'd like to include on the cover? Are there any colors that you especially like or dislike? What is the general tone or mood of your book? We like to hear your suggestions and are especially pleased when you have a photo or the nugget of an idea about how you think the cover should look. Sometimes authors will send us a book with a cover they especially like. Of course, we can't copy the design of another book, but we can derive ideas for color combinations, text treatment and other elements from published work.
Help your cover designer
In your first consultation with us, suggest words or phrases that describe your book, such as "a racy Western novel set in Yellowstone Park," or "a mother's guide to sanity during the holidays." Adjectives such as "soft," "sentimental," "funny," "action-packed," "clear and concise," "authoritative," "scientific," or "business-like," will also help us set the tone for your book.
In a bookstore, study the covers of books written for approximately the same audience as your book. If you see a color combination or just a "look and feel" of a book you really like, buy it and share it with us. Don't try to copy another book's design. It just won't fit. However, a design for another book can give you ideas for your own book.
Cover colors and other enhancements
Suggest colors that you think convey the mood you want to depict, together we will choose just the right combination of colors. In general, reds and yellows are action colors, blues and greens are intellectual colors, browns and burgandies are comforting colors, and so on. The most powerful color is white. The second most powerful color is black. Solid dark colors tend to pick up fingerprints and dust. A solid white cover may also soil easily. Coatings can protect covers with large areas of a single color from being easily marred.
Two-color covers can be striking, but a full-color cover will not add more than a few cents per book to your total cost. For the extra impact a full-color cover makes, they are almost always worth every penny.
Other enhancements such as embossing, gold foil, and cutouts can add to the cover appeal of your book--and to the production price.
Give your designer room to be creative
Once you have given us all of the information we need for the cover, let our years of experience and familiarity with the art form work for you.
For the best possible cover, give us room for creative freedom.
Cover illustration
The visual appeal of your book is greatly enhanced by a carefully chosen illustration for your cover. Give us one or more drawings, symbols, or photos to start the creative process. One of the "wonders of the web" is the ability to shop for stock photos online rather than digging through pages and pages of catalogs. We can download the art to see how it looks on the cover. It's not ready to print (you have to pay for a printable version), but to shop for art, nothing beats the web. Don't be shy about sending your own sketches or snapshots. The first question we ask is always, "What do I have to work with?
You will also see highly successful book covers with no illustrations at all. Look again. The patterns, colors, and shapes of the letters themselves are carefully designed to illustrate the thrust of the book and invite you inside.
Our clean and innovative style will have your company's look and feel shouting for attention.
