About Chapter One
Chapter One is a dating app built around books. Members introduce themselves by what they read: the book they press on everyone, the authors and genres they return to. They can pin the actual books to those answers, drawn from LibraryThing’s catalog. The books we love say a lot about us. Conversation starts from a shared love of books, or even shared books.
Creating a profile is free; talking to other members requires a subscription. There are no boosts and no paid tiers.
Chapter One is made by LibraryThing and launches in Boston around the Boston Book Festival on October 17.
About LibraryThing
LibraryThing is a cataloging service and community for people who love books. Since 2005, millions of readers have used it to catalog their personal libraries, track their reading, and talk about books.
LibraryThing also builds products for libraries and publishers, among them TinyCat, Syndetics Unbound, and Talpa Search. It is based in Portland, Maine.
LibraryThing was founded on August 29, 2005 by Tim Spalding, a classics graduate student who had worked at Houghton Mifflin in Boston. He is married to the novelist Lisa Carey, whom he met at Trident Books in Boston.
Screenshots
The app as it stands, captured on an iPhone. Each comes at full size and in a smaller web copy; the tiles here show the small one. Full size is fine on the web and good for a modest print inset — ask if you need it larger.
Profile
A whole person on one screen: the photo, and the openers they have answered with the actual books pinned to them.
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Profile, further down
The rest of the same profile: the books that explain them, their genres, the authors they return to, and the bookstores and libraries they claim.
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Match
Two people have liked each other, and the chat is one tap away.
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Questions
The question sets members answer about the books in their lives.
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Chapter One logos
Each mark is available as SVG and as PNG at several sizes. Prefer the SVG wherever the destination will take it; it is the same artwork at any size. The preview tiles show each file as it is, so pick by eye.
Full lockup, vertical
Mark, wordmark, and tagline stacked. The primary lockup, and what the site leads with.
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Full lockup, horizontal
The same elements set across. Use where height is scarce.
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Full lockup, horizontal (alternate)
A second horizontal arrangement, tighter in the vertical.
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Logotype, horizontal
Mark and name, no tagline. Used in the site footer.
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Logotype, horizontal (compressed)
The widest, shortest lockup. For mastheads and banners.
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Wordmark
Type only, no mark. Use when the mark appears elsewhere on the page.
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Mark
The mark on its own, square. The app icon and the favicon come from this.
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Mark, circular
For avatars and any round crop.
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Mark, circular, reversed
The white version, for dark grounds. Its preview tile below is dark for that reason.
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LibraryThing logos
Chapter One is a LibraryThing product, and stories about it often want the parent mark too. LibraryThing’s own press page carries the full kit; the two marks below are the ones this site uses.
Colors
Chapter One red
The brand color. Text, marks, buttons.
Paper
The background the whole product sits on.
Ink
Body text.
Using these marks
Please do
- Use the SVG when the destination accepts it.
- Leave clear space around a mark, and keep other elements out of it.
- Place the marks on the cream paper, on white, or on a plain dark ground using the reversed version.
- Write the name as two words, capitalized: Chapter One.
Please don’t
- Recolor, stretch, rotate, outline, or add effects to a mark.
- Rebuild a lockup from its parts, or set the name in another typeface.
- Put a mark on a busy photograph or a color it has no contrast against.
- Write it “ChapterOne” or “chapter one” in running text.