# COVER — Title image / book cover (full typography v3)
# Category: COVER
# Buch: Coding Agents in der Praxis
# Autor: Martin Richardt
# Konzept: Controlled Agency — calm network (LLM + tools/harness), text-first Swiss technical
# Orientierung: 2:3 portrait (print cover / KDP-friendly), e.g. 1600×2400+
# Ziel-Asset: assets/cover/cover-front.jpg
# Print: assets/cover/cover-front-print.jpg (≥1800×2700)
# Language: English prompt body; ON-IMAGE TEXT is exact German (see list)
# Usage: paste prompt into Grok Imagine / image_gen with aspect_ratio 2:3
# Stand: 2026-08-12 — Full-Typo-Spec v3 (gradient, right/lower network, teal rules, August 2026)

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Professional book cover design, clean and modern technical aesthetic, calm and authoritative mood, anti-hype.

Vertical portrait book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio.

Background: soft vertical gradient from very light cool blue-gray at the top to a deeper desaturated cyan-blue at the bottom. Subtle, low-opacity circuit-board and network motif in the background — thin geometric lines and small nodes, mostly concentrated on the right side and lower third, fading out toward the center and top so they never compete with the text. The network should feel intentional (suggesting connected systems, LLM + tools/harness) rather than decorative noise. Keep the central text area mostly clean and free of pattern.

Exact text hierarchy, perfectly centered:

Top: small uppercase label “PRAXISBUCH” in a clean medium-weight sans-serif, strong teal (#0D9488 or similar saturated teal), slightly tracked out.

Below it a thin elegant horizontal line in the same teal.

Main title in two lines, large and dominant:
“Coding Agents”
“in der Praxis”
Strong, modern geometric sans-serif (similar to Inter, Söhne or Space Grotesk), bold weight, deep navy blue almost black-blue (#0A1628 or #0F172A). Excellent contrast against the background. Slightly tighter line spacing between the two title lines.

Below the title another thin horizontal line in teal.

Subtitle in a smaller, regular-weight sans-serif, medium cool blue-gray:
“Pragmatischer Leitfaden für den produktiven
Einsatz von Coding-Agents”
Clean, readable, slightly tighter leading.

Lower third:
Author name “Martin Richardt” in medium-weight dark navy, elegant and clear.

Very bottom: small “August 2026” in a lighter weight of the same dark navy.

Overall color palette: restrained cool blues and teals only. High contrast on the title, softer on secondary text. No warm colors, no neon, no purple, no orange.

Lighting and finish: soft, even, professional print look, slight paper texture feeling, high-end technical non-fiction book cover. Sharp typography, perfect kerning, balanced vertical rhythm with slightly tighter spacing than a typical generic cover so the design feels more intentional and less sparse.

Style keywords: clean Swiss-inspired technical design, modern developer tooling aesthetic, calm authority, high legibility, premium self-published technical book.
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# Success checklist
# - PRAXISBUCH teal uppercase top + thin teal rule below
# - Title deep navy dominant: Coding Agents / in der Praxis + teal rule below
# - Subtitle: "Pragmatischer Leitfaden für den produktiven Einsatz von Coding-Agents" (NO "und zuverlässigen")
# - Martin Richardt + August 2026
# - Soft vertical cool gradient; network right + lower third, center text clean
# - 2:3 portrait, text-first, no hype art
