Pixelated - iBooks template

Pixelated is a perky iBooks Author portrait template that is particularly well suited to design, development, technology and scientific themes. Its colour options make it easy to deploy for a series of books on different topics. As with all iBA Portrait templates, Pixelated 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. If you’re after your own distinguishing icon for the front page, you can find a wealth of them at the Noun Project.

**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 7 colour options: red, purple, orange, light green, grey, green and blue.

**Fonts:** Comes bundled with Oswald and Lato fonts. Oswald was designed by Vernon Adams, Lato by Łukasz Dziedzic. Headings are in Oswald (Regular). Body text and table text are in Lato (Regular). These fonts are open source fonts, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL). The OFL allows use, bundling, modification and redistribution.

**Background:** Pixelated background image on front page and some chapter and section pages is ‘5 Pixel Backgrounds’ by Mehmet for www.bestpsdfreebies.com. Image is “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.