How To Design A Developer Book Cover

Fred Grott
6 min readMar 7, 2022

Look, publishing your first book is always more time-consuming as a developer. Let me make it easier for you with this set of tricks to easily design a book cover.

The Background For The Cover

First, we need a background. And, not just any background. The background chosen should have a visual element that focuses the eye in the center of the book cover. I chose this background:

And you can find such free and premium backgrounds at, 123FreeVectors:

https://www.123freevectors.com/

Notice that the trick of picking a background that already has a visual element to focus the reader eye to the center of the book cover saves you some design and graphics time, as you may not be an expert at design and graphics.

Now we have some other elements to add to the book cover.

Your Brand Mark

By having and always showing a brand mark, all those developer posts, developer books, developer portfolio website, and other products act as both advertising and establishing a promise expectation in your audience’s mind. It’s an…

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Fred Grott
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