Set up your collection.

A collection holds all the books about one family. Set the look and voice once here, and every book in it matches. Next you'll add the journals or letters they're drawn from.

Art style

Used on every illustration

Watercolor

Loose washes, pastoral, Beatrix-Potter-ish.

Ink & sepia

Sketchy pen-and-ink, journal-engraving feel.

Pastel

Soft colored-pencil, family-album warmth.

Storybook

Richly painted golden-age illustration.

Modern

Clean lines, flat colors, playful.

Whimsical

Pencil + digital, dreamlike texture.

Wartime comic

Bold 1940s comic-book ink, halftone dots, heroic angles.

Page design

How every illustration sits on the page

Full bleed Recommended

Art to all four edges, every page. Clean and immersive.

Soft edges

Watercolor edges that melt into the cream page. Heirloom feel.

Framed on cream

A clean rectangle with a thin keyline. Quiet, album-like.

Little drawings on the words pages. Text-only pages get a small drawing of that page's key object — the ship, the lantern — like classic storybooks do.

Cover style

How the book cover is laid out

Classic

Framed artwork on cream with the title below.

Band

Full-bleed artwork with a title band and a thin gold rule.

Cinematic

Full-bleed artwork with a soft scrim; the title sits in the scene.