5 Tips For Designing A Book Cover That Will Help Your Book Sell Like Wizkid's Album

A good book cover is one sure way to have your book become a best seller on OkadaBooks. Readers on the platform are persuaded to purchase your book if they find the book cover impressive and appeasing to the eyes. Awesome book covers also make the site look sexy. The importance of a good book cover cannot be overemphasized; it should be one of your top concerns if you want to blow on OkadaBooks. ?

Some of the best book covers on the website

These 5 tips will help you design a book cover that will seduce the retinas of your readers and increase your book downloads before you know it.

1. Pick a Colour Combination and Work With It

Use cool colours for your cover design. Avoid a mix of bright colours because if we wanted to see a rainbow, we’ll look at the sky. Shouty colours are distracting and can be irritating to look at. Use at least 2 calm colours. You could also opt for a plain colour as seen on the cover of Dating Inteligently. ?

2. Implement Your Book’s Theme In The Visuals

Images contribute to outstanding cover designs, but you need to be careful of your selection. You can use graphic images, arts and anything that relates to your book’s core message. For instance, Adult books use explicit images of a couple. This aspect of a cover design is where your creativity is tested. Have fun with it, but remember to represent your book’s theme. Here’s an example:

3. Align Your Book Title Properly

Place your book title in the right angle. Unless it fits, do not put it across your cover image. This will make the design look off. Also, decide on the title’s text. Will it be in capital letters? Emboldened? Italicized? Whatever style you choose, just ensure that it fits and doesn’t ruin the design.

4. Keep It Simple, But Deep

The Reunion has a simple cover design, two people holding hands, but the meaning is beyond the image and it also reflects the novel’s title and theme. This is an important part of a book cover and an effective way to capture the attention of readers.

5. Have a Trademark and Stick With It

You know how WizKid says “Yeah ya!” at the start of a song? This gives us a clue that he sang in it. You don’t have to put “Yeah ya!” on your book covers; just have something unique about them and adopt it as your design style. It could be the font style, text colour or a graphic design. Whatever it is, ensure that it’s something significant enough to make your books recognizable by readers, so that when they see it, they’ll know it’s yours. Here‘s an example:

You can use the Canva app to create artistic book covers. It houses thousands of designs which you can modify to suit your book’s needs. It’s free and easy! Also, check out this article on how to design with Canva.