Modern Flat
Bold shapes, clean colour, playful and bright, a thoroughly modern storybook.
Illustration style
Vintage Engraving
Fine etched lines and sepia tones, like a treasured book from another century.
The world of Vintage Engraving
Fine crosshatched lines, sepia warmth, the gravity of an old atlas. Vintage engraving makes a story look like it was always true. It is the natural choice for family histories, grandparent books, and anyone whose story deserves the heirloom treatment.
Best for: Family sagas, grandparents, retirement and legacy gifts.
Your photos, this style
Every Fableself book starts from your photos. Our illustrators redraw your people faithfully, same faces, same hair, same spark, inside this style's world, across every page of an original story written for you. You approve a full digital proof before any payment.
Occasions that suit it
Start a book in Vintage Engraving
Begin with this styleHardcover editions from $79. Proof before payment, always.
More worlds to wander
Impressionist
Loose brushwork and dappled light, as if your story were painted en plein air.
Japanese Woodblock
Flat planes of colour and bold outlines in the serene ukiyo-e tradition.