Work Book
A Beautiful Homecoming

Anatomy of a cover
Everything a cover has to do.

Choose a number to see that part.
- 1 The blurb
The back-cover copy, set to read in ten seconds.
- 2 Barcode and publisher
ISBN barcode, price and the publisher’s marks, placed to the printer’s rules.
- 3 The spine
Title and author sized to the spine width, worked out from the page count and the paper.
- 4 The title
Lettering that still reads at thumbnail size in an online shop.
- 5 The image
One picture that carries the book’s idea.
- 6 The author’s name
Set to sit with the title, not compete with it.