# Painted Cover Series

> Illustrated covers for every post of a blog or newsletter in one painted style: mid-century gouache, two-color linocut or your own art direction. An image model paints one picture per post, the first anchoring the style for the rest. The script then sets each title as real type in the calm part of the picture, with a color that passes contrast, in link-preview, wide, square and portrait sizes.

- Output: Image, PNG · 1200×630, 1600×900, 1080×1080, 1080×1350 · og meta tags
- Price: $4.99 one-time, or included in Pro
- Page: https://lookbk.dev/skills/painted-cover-series

## What you need

- Node.js 18 or newer. Nothing to install.
- Chrome, Chromium or Edge (the script finds it; set `CHROME_PATH` if it doesn't). It reads the art and sets the covers.
- Internet access while building, for the title fonts (Google Fonts). Offline, a fallback serif is used and the script says so.
- An image key in the environment: `GEMINI_API_KEY` (Gemini 3 Pro Image, "Nano Banana Pro", the default and what made the examples) or `OPENAI_API_KEY` (GPT Image). Without a key, the script writes `prompts.md` and you make the pictures in any image app and drop them in `art/`.

## Install

```bash
curl -fsSL https://lookbk.dev/cli.js | node - add painted-cover-series
```

The first run prints a sign-in link; open it, approve, and run the command again. Pro skills install for accounts that bought them or have Pro.

Where it installs:

- Run by Claude Code: `~/.claude/skills/painted-cover-series` only, the one folder Claude Code reads.
- From your own terminal: `~/.agents/skills/painted-cover-series`, which Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, Cursor and OpenCode read, and also `~/.claude/skills/painted-cover-series` when `~/.claude` exists.

Add `--claude` or `--shared` to write only one of those folders, or `--project` to install into the current folder instead. Start a new agent session afterwards so it picks up the skill.

Credits and licenses: NOTICE.md plus any LICENSE files inside the ZIP.

## Example request

> Make linocut covers for our engineering blog’s last four posts, as link previews and square images.