Cover art

Cover Art, sometimes called box art or store graphic, is a key visual piece used to communicate genre, theme, treatment, and other qualities of a piece of media to a potential audience.

Contents of Cover Art

Cover art traditionally conveys one or more the following:

• The mood of a visual novel
• The genre and other themes of the visual novel
• The setting of a visual novel
• Prominent or important characters
• The publisher and/or developer of the visual novel, often in the corners of box art.
• Promotional blurbs about the visual novel, such as featuring the writing of other noteworthy works, or the participation of other famed individuals.

Variations of cover art

• Box art for store shelves.
• Photographs or facsimilies of box art for display on web pages, often for demonstrative purposes.
• Capsule graphics of a digital storefronts such as Steam, GOG, itch.io.
• Library graphics to display in digital collections of games