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Cover designer

Design your cover for digital and print. Preview every side before you publish.

Start from a genre template or bring your own artwork. Set your title and author name, then preview the front, spine and back in 3D.

Start from a design

Sample book: The Salt Harvest by Rowan Ellery — Literary Fiction, Classic

How it works

From blank cover to printed book, in three steps.

You design the cover once. We prepare it for both the eBook and the printed edition.

  • Step 01

    Pick a starting point

    Choose a template made for your genre, or upload artwork of your own.

  • Step 02

    Make it yours

    Set the title and author name, change the fonts and colours, and move anything you like.

  • Step 03

    Check it and publish

    Turn the finished cover in 3D, then approve it for your eBook and your printed edition.

Templates

Start with a cover that fits your book.

Browse templates by genre and style, then customise it to make it yours.

Filter the covers below by genre or by style. One at a time.

  • Cold Signal by Dane Kovic: a lone figure walking a rain-slicked street at night under gaslight, the title in tall white serif above.Thriller · Photographic
  • A Quiet Inventory by Imogen Vale: a child standing in a lit doorway cut out of a dark silhouetted head, the title small and italic above.Literary Fiction · Illustrated
  • Featherfall by Ilva Serrano: two gilded phoenixes over a moonlit pool on midnight blue, inside a fine gold border.Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Illustrated
  • Runaway Sock by Bruno Katz: four children carrying lanterns with a rabbit and a fox in a flowering village, a rainbow overhead.Children's · Illustrated
  • Venom Season by Rhea Salter: a red snake coiled around a dagger on black, the title in widely spaced serif capitals.Thriller · Illustrated
  • The Habit of Attention by Nadia Oyelaran: navy, ochre and cream geometric blocks behind a large serif title.Non-fiction · Minimal
  • Weathering, Slowly by Milena Fabre: four seated figures drawn in muted terracotta and slate on cream, birds rising above them.Poetry & Memoir · Illustrated
  • Peach Season by Marisol Quinn: a couple walking away through a rose arch at sunset, the title in deep pink serif.Romance · Classic
  • The Salt Harvest by Rowan Ellery: a painted coastal town under a pale sky with a gold disc, a figure walking down to the water.Literary Fiction · Classic
  • Bleed Through by Sadie Vance: a fractured face dissolving into red and black, the title in condensed white capitals.Thriller · Minimal
  • The Ember Tide by Selene Marchetti: a cloaked figure with a staff before a dark castle and waterfall, the title in white serif.Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Illustrated
  • Pip's Lantern by Josie Trent: a boy holding a lantern on a glowing path into a storybook town at night, the title in yellow.Children's · Photographic
The builder

Or start with your own artwork.

Already have an illustration or a photograph? Upload it and build your cover.

  • 01

    Upload your artwork

    Start from your own illustration, photograph or commissioned art.

  • 02

    Place your title and name

    Move the text anywhere on the cover until the layout suits the artwork.

  • 03

    Pick from 1,800+ fonts

    The same font library you use for your book interior, so your cover and your pages can match.

Only upload artwork you own or have permission to use.

The preview

See it as a real book before you publish.

Turn the cover in 3D to check the front, spine and back, or flip through the book the way a reader would.

Sample book: US Royal, 152 × 229 mm, 13 mm spine.

A taste of the preview inside Creator Studio, running on sample artwork. Your own book gets your cover, its real spine width, and a flipbook of the interior.

  • 3D preview

    Drag to rotate the book and check the front, spine and back.

  • Flipbook

    Flip through the cover and interior the way a browsing reader would.

  • Your book’s listing

    When you publish, this cover fronts your book on PubliRead, our reader storefront.

Ready for print

The print measurements are handled for you.

The spine width comes from your page count and paper type. The canvas shows you where the printer cuts, so nothing important lands too close to the edge.

A print-safe cover spreadA flat cover spread laid out as back cover, spine and front cover. The artwork extends past the trim line into the bleed, a dashed trim line marks where the printer cuts, an inner dashed safe zone marks where text must stay, and the spine band is labelled as computed from page count and paper stock.Back coverFront coverBleed: art runs past the cut lineTrim: where the printer cutsSafe zone: keep text insideSpine: width from your page count and paper

  • Spine width, calculated

    A thicker book needs a wider spine. We work it out from your page count and paper, so the artwork lines up.

  • Cut lines marked

    Printers trim a fraction off every edge. The canvas shows that margin, so your title never gets clipped.

  • Ready for print on demand

    The file you approve is the file we print, one copy at a time as orders come in.

Learn more about print on demand
Included in all plans

The cover designer is on every plan.

  • Template galleryGenre and style filters
  • Cover builderArtwork, type and layout
  • 3D previewFront, spine and back
  • Print-ready filesSpine and cut lines handled
Common questions

Your cover questions, answered.

Other features

Keep preparing your book once the cover is ready.

See all features

Finish your cover before you publish.

Start from a template or your own artwork, set the title and author name, then preview the complete wrap.

  • No design skills needed
  • Free to start