Design a Gumroad cover that survives the grid
Get three Gumroad cover concepts that stay legible in the grid and earn the click.
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Example result
Sample values used: - Name: The Cold Email Vault - Format: 40 tested cold-email templates (Notion doc + swipe file) - Who it's for: B2B founders doing their own outreach - The vibe: clean/minimal with one bold accent - Brand…
What this prompt does
- Drafts three cover concepts built for the Gumroad grid
- Checks each for legibility at thumbnail size
- Picks the short phrase to keep — and what to cut
- Recommends the strongest concept and says why
- Hands you a tight brief for a designer or image tool
Why it works
A Gumroad cover competes in a small grid, so legibility at thumbnail size matters more than detail — concepts judged against that constraint avoid the common mistake of cramming text nobody can read. Forcing a minimal phrase and a clean brief produces a cover that earns the click instead of disappearing.
Tips for this prompt
- Fill the vibe field with a real word — "premium" and "playful" pull different covers.
- Shrink each concept to thumbnail size before you pick.
- Paste your actual brand colours into brand_notes — the AI guesses badly otherwise.
- Kill any concept whose text you can't read squinting at the grid.
- Pick one concept, then let it write the full image prompt.
How to use the prompt
- Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
- Fill the {{placeholders}} — name, format, audience, vibe, brand notes
- Run it
- Read the three concepts and the small-size check
- Pick one concept when asked which to write a full image prompt for
- Hand the production brief to your designer or image tool
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