Go ahead, judge that book by its cover. Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great.

Rittsu’s top 14 tips will guide you toward stunning results and help you elevate your book cover designs to new heights. For ...

To stand out online, publishers push book designers for brighter, bolder covers. The hot color of the moment? Yellow.

Romance novels are getting a modern design twist with the rise of vector couple covers.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second ...

People love a good design trend story (guilty!). When it comes to book covers, it’s a delight to read about Frappucino unicorns, stacked silhouettes, and overgrown botanical borders. The only ...

A design is more than just a pretty picture: Typeface, imagery, graphics, and color all play a role in signaling a book’s content and tone—and in getting readers to make a purchase.

Inspired by the “ flat design ” that’s become standard on the Web, these covers take on a minimalist style characterized by bright colors, simple layouts, and lots of white space.

Designing book covers is famously difficult. It's so hard we have an entire idiom that asks us not to judge the worth of something just because its cover turned out really, really ugly. From our ...

We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust-jacket illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s, has long deserved ...