cover image

Book's outer picture

A cover image is the primary visual representing a piece of content—the front of a book, the main photo on a social media profile, or the thumbnail for an article or video.

It serves as both identification and advertisement, meant to attract attention and convey something about what lies beneath: The cover image showed a woman running through fog.

Related

album art · record sleeve · poster · banner · headline · frontpage · splash · photography · photo shoot · visual · graphic · portrait · snapshot · high resolution · magazine · reveal · unveil · first look

Categories
Opposites
position/location

cover imageback cover

Book's posterior surface

rear cover · back matter · endpaper · colophon · spine

visibility/prominence

cover imagebody text

Document's main prose

Family

cover, image, covers, covered, covering, uncover, uncovered, discover, discovered

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G