Design
Composition, color, and balance for blog cover and featured images that read clearly at any size.
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Color Grading Your Blog Cover - Tone and Contrast
Warm or cool, flat or punchy - grade the photo so the cover holds.
Designing Blog Covers for Light and Dark Mode
A cover is a flat image, so build it self-contained to hold against any surround.
What Makes a Good Blog Featured Image
The handful of decisions that make or break a cover, and why most of them fall apart the moment it shrinks to a thumbnail.
How to Keep Text Readable Over a Photo
Why a flat wash fails, and the scrim-and-grayscale fix that does not.
Before and After - Fixing Bad Blog Covers
The five ways covers fail, and the one-move fix for each.
Featured Image Layouts by Post Type
Match the cover layout to the job the post does, and the design picks itself.
Blog Cover Examples Worth Stealing
Seven cover layouts you can copy, each one built to survive the thumbnail.