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Cover art is very important in attracting your audience, whether it’s podcast cover art, a book cover, or something else.
Here are some tips to make your cover art stand out (especially for podcasts).
- The Podcast Host recommends focusing on the name of the show, an image of the host, and having a publisher logo.
- Podcastle suggests looking at other forms of art that inspires you, and making sure to incorporate the right colors, your podcast identity, typography, and branding elements.
- Podnews emphasizes that your cover art looks good as a thumbnail.
- Buzzsprout recommends repurposing your art for social media, business cards, and more.
Resources for Creating Cover Art
Here are some tools and information on designers who create cover art:
- “Create Stunning Podcast Cover Images With Dynamo” on Castos
- Podcast Cover Art on Instagram
- Krita: Tools for artists
- Icon buddy: For finding icons to use
- Spreadsheet of designers
- Podcast player badge set on Podpage
- Podcast badges
- Example of brand guidelines that you can use as a starting point
- Pearl Thompson
- The New York Public Library Digital Collections
- Library of Congress
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