The AI workspace for your album art references

The AI workspace for your album art references

Album art direction starts with visual references: covers you admire, photography styles, colour palettes, typography treatments, textures, spatial compositions. They come from streaming platforms, Instagram, record shops, design blogs, and real life. You save them in your camera roll, Pinterest, bookmarks, and screenshots. When you're briefing a designer or building a direction for a release, the references are in six different places and the one that captures the exact feeling you want is unfindable.

Fabric puts every album art reference in one searchable library. Find inspiration by colour, mood, composition, and visual similarity. Build direction boards on the canvas with your visual references alongside music and video.

Search by colour, mood, and style

AI search finds album art references by visual quality. "Dark, moody covers with minimal typography" finds them. "Bright, saturated artwork with collage elements" finds the match. Search by colour to find everything in a specific palette. Describe the feeling and find the references that match.

Similar search lets you drop in a cover and find everything visually related. The explorer surfaces connections across your collection, showing clusters by visual style and colour.

Canvas for direction boards

The canvas lets you build album art direction boards with visual references, typography samples, colour swatches, and Spotify track embeds arranged spatially. The visual and the sonic direction sit together. Share the board with your designer or collaborators via publish. Real-time collaboration means you build direction together.

Save from everywhere

Screenshot album covers from streaming platforms. Save from Instagram and Pinterest via the mobile app share sheet. Clip design blogs with the web clipper. Photograph vinyl covers and gig posters. Everything converges in one searchable library.

Annotate with creative direction

Annotations let you add notes: "this colour palette for the EP," "the typography approach, not the imagery," "show designer this composition." The annotations are searchable alongside the references.

Connected to the release

Album art references live alongside the music, the lyrics, and the release materials in the project space. For the broader music workflow, see Fabric for music creators. For collecting visual references broadly, see mood references and visual inspiration. For colour-specific exploration, see colour palettes. For typography, see fonts.

Who uses Fabric for album art

Music creators developing visual identity for releases. Bands and solo artists building direction for designers. Music labels managing artwork across releases. Designers working on album art projects. Creative teams handling music client visual direction.

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FAQs

Can I find album art by colour or mood?

Yes. AI search finds references by colour, mood, style, and description.

Can I find covers similar to a reference?

Yes. Similar search finds visually related artwork across your library.

Can I build direction boards with music embeds?

Yes. The canvas supports Spotify embeds alongside visual references.

Can I share direction boards with a designer?

Yes. Publish the board with a shareable link.

Can I photograph vinyl covers and posters?

Yes. The mobile app captures photos that become searchable by visual content.

Can I annotate with creative direction?

Yes. Annotations let you add searchable notes about how to use each reference.

Are references organised automatically?

Yes. Smart organization groups by visual style and colour.

Is my data secure?

Yes. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 compliant. Your data is never used to train AI models.