Adds a radial-gradient centre darkening pass (~62 % opacity) directly behind the
title/subtitle/author text block so the gold title reads clearly over any
illustration colour — addresses KDP review feedback about unreadable cover text.
Also adds a fourth text-shadow layer to .front-title for extra depth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amazon rounds odd page counts up to the next even number before
calculating spine thickness. 99 pages → 100 effective pages gives
0.2347 in (5.96 mm) instead of 0.2324 in (5.90 mm).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PDF 1.4 preserves transparency objects, which KDP's preflight rejects.
Downgrading to 1.3 forces Ghostscript to composite all rgba overlays,
gradient alphas and image opacities into solid pixels during the write.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces Georgia with Cormorant Garamond (display, 300 italic) + Lora
(body) across all cover text. Adds @font-face declarations pointing to
fonts/ (same as interior). Updates gold tokens to match interior palette.
Visual changes: front title in Cormorant light italic with gold gradient
rule below, ❧ ornament replacing ✦, synopsis body in Lora.
cover.js now reads 00-front-matter.md to inject author name into spine,
front, and removes the [AUTOR] placeholder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces Georgia + per-story color theming with a unified premium
fairytale look: Cormorant Garamond (display/titles) + Lora (body),
warm cream text pages (#faf8f2 with paper noise texture), deep ink
typography (#1e1b18) throughout — no per-story text color variation.
- fonts/: committed WOFF2 files via @fontsource packages; auto-copied
by scripts/setup-fonts.js (runs as postinstall)
- Typography: story number in small caps, hairline rule, ❧ ornament
- Layout: cream background replaces per-story bg, radial glow on title
- build.js: passes frontMatter (author, year) to templates
- Templates: author byline on title page, cleaner imprint page
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Guides (trim/safe-zone/spine lines) are design references only and
must not appear in the submitted PDF — hidden via display:none.
Barcode placeholder is now an empty white box so KDP can place the
ISBN barcode automatically without printing a label.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
scripts/cover.js computes the exact cover canvas dimensions from the
page count in book-meta.json (written by build.js), using the KDP
Premium Color spine formula (0.002347 in/page), and renders a
Nunjucks template to a single PDF containing back cover, spine, and
front cover with bleed (0.125 in) and safe-zone overlay guides.
- `pnpm cover` — generate output/cover.pdf
- `pnpm all` — build interior + both PDFs in one command
- Cover artwork slots: images/cover/front.png, images/cover/back.png
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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