Iconic - iBooks template

Iconic is a warm and fun iBooks Author portrait template with an icon-based background. Its colour options make it easy to deploy for a series of books on different topics. As with all iBA Portrait templates, Iconic offers a range of chapter, section, copyright, dedication, forward and individual page styles, as well as a style guide that explains the most common styles used throughout the template.

**Contents options:** (1) Auto-generating contents when iBooks format is used within iBooks or made available in the iBooks Store. (2) Template contents page that can be used when iBook is to be converted to PDF for sale on one’s own or another website.

**Colour options:** Comes with 8 colour options: red, purple, navy blue, green, pink, lime green, orange and blue.

**Fonts:** Comes bundled with Roboto and Source Sans Pro fonts. Roboto was designed by Christian Robertson, Source Sans Pro by Paul D. Hunt. Headings are in Roboto (Medium or, in the case of Heading 1, Bold). Table text is also in Roboto (Regular). Body text is in Source Sans Pro (Regular). These fonts are open source fonts. Roboto is licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0. Source Sans Pro is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Both licences allow use, bundling, modification and redistribution.

**Background:** Icon imagery on front page and some chapter and section pages is from ‘5 Seamless Icon Patterns’ by Michael Reimer from www.bestpsdfreebies.com. These patterns are “free for use in both personal and commercial projects”.

**Photos:** Placeholder photos used in template pages are from Unsplash.com, released into the public domain under CC0.

**Customise as you please:** You can customise iBooks Author templates as you please. For example, you can modify styles, change the layouts and colours, add your own images, and insert audio and video (audio and video function in the iBooks format but not PDF format).

**System requirements:** You need to have an Apple Mac computer with iBooks Author installed. iBooks Author is free from Apple. For more information, see Apple's description of iBooks Author and its listed system requirements. The templates work with the latest version of iBooks Author (2.3) as well as with other recent versions.