Free Penguin book cover template for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Update – Photoshop version now available!
Quickly create your own Penguin-inspired book covers (such as my Inception book covers) with these editable templates in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop file formats.
The layout for this template uses the classic ‘Marber grid‘, created in 1961 by Romek Marber to decide upon the composition and placement of elements.
Like these…
The typeface used for the typography typically was Helvetica. If you don’t have it installed on your system you could use a font like Arial/Arial Black or download a free Helvetica alternative.
Download Penguin Book Template (Illustrator)
Download Penguin Book Template (Photoshop)
Leave a comment if you like them.
Feel free to let me know what you’ve done with them too. I’m always curious to see what others are doing.
18 Comments
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JW
October 14, 2011how do you change the green to orange?
Paul
October 14, 2011@pmurraydesign
Simply click on the green area to select it, then select an orange colour either from the swatches panel or by double clicking on the green colour at the bottom of the tool panel and selecting an orange hue from there.
Anonymous
October 21, 2011this is not a book cover template – rather just the front cover
Paul
October 23, 2011@pmurraydesign
A fair point, however creating a template for a full jacket is difficult, since the spine width will vary depending on the number of pages that make up the book. I will however release a template/guide for creating a full jacket in the near future.
Andy
February 17, 2012Hi Paul, this is great! do you have the Photoshop version?
Paul Murray
February 20, 2012@pmurraydesign
Thanks for commenting. I’ll see about getting a PS version up asap
brian
March 30, 2012@noslouch
Hey Paul-
Thanks for this. Love your inception cover. Will surf around your site for other things to look at :0
B
Paul Murray
March 30, 2012@pmurraydesign
Thanks Brian, glad you like it.
Zoe
April 23, 2012Hi I’d really like to get your template in either Adobe photo shop or adobe reader which ever is appropriate – do you just have the green cover? don’t suppose you have one for puffin book covers too? Trying to be a little creative at home thanks would be much appreciated.
Paul Murray
April 24, 2012@pmurraydesign
Hi Zoe, I’ve added a Photoshop version of the template. I’ll look into making a Puffin one, and maybe some from other publishers.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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John D. Miller
April 26, 2012@-
Thanks for offering us a design formula which most of us never knew existed.
Paul Murray
April 26, 2012@pmurraydesign
You’re welcome. Thanks for commenting.
Batavier
January 14, 2013Thanks! Will use these for my game collection.
Paul Murray
January 17, 2013@pmurraydesign
You’re welcome.