These 50 awesome book covers will inspire you learn. Vintage book coversletteringedward gorey booksvintage booksvintage book. Typography has endless importance to a book s cover design. One of the most consistent and easily corrected mistakes i see with book covers that are designed by authors is weak or inappropriate typography.
The books also gave me and my classmates our very first taste of typography and. Make sure to use text hierarchy to bring attention to the more important text for example, youll want your title text to be larger than your subtitle text. Mark thomas also did both of my covers and almost all of my book sales have been generated via facebook targeting the covers have been instrumental in that. As we can see, typography is an amazing graphical tool that can be. Richard rutters web typography is a thick book that covers a lot of topics. It might be the typography on a book cover, the colors of your favorite music album, the opening titles in that movie you saw yesterday. Basically, book cover design is one of the book s most important assets and can have an enormous impact on sales so you need to get it right. The complete guide to choosing your book cover font with examples. Using the right fonts on your book cover helps tell the reader what genre your book fits into and elicits an emotional response. Judge a book by its cover the anatomy of a book cover.
The skyscraper typography in the album cover is incredible, it decidedly pumps up to disco theme of the album and era. Not only can typography be used to create inspirational and motivational posters and prints, it can also be used to create attentiongrabbing book covers. To celebrate all those little moments of inspiration, we have compiled some resources for you which honor the beauty of graphic design and the ideas behind it. Typography book with interesting typography on the cover, which may seem like a given but while i was looking at other typography books i noticed a lot of them had very boring type.
Inspiring everyday graphic design articles smashing magazine. The crux of typography on book covers is the potential to maximize the impact of your book title, and your book cover as a whole. Heres an atmospheric cover with typography and a scene that become unreadable at small sizes. What, at first glance, is just typography turns out to be. The book cover is about dissecting feelings by taking out the heart piece by piece. Typography entails an endless amount of disciplines and perspectives, and youd be forgiven for finding certain aspects of typography a bit boring. You want it to look great, but also be appropriate, fit in well with the cover design, and probably be just a little more interesting than a standard font.
That sounds complicated enough but take the sheer amount of book genres out there, and coming up with a book cover to attract readers can be a monumental task. This gallery has 35 examples of wonderful typography in book cover design. Cardon webb makes the hard work and artistry of balancing text with imagery look easy. The books themselves are crossed between a number of.
Covering everything from rhythm and proportion to harmony and counterpoint to analphabetic symbols, the tome remains a brilliant convergence of the practical, theoretical and historical. The exciting thing about making a yearbook is having the ability to customise it and make it fun for everyone involved. Book covers with interesting typography the boston globe. The real marketing value of a professional book cover. Top 10 fonts for book covers and interior design ibpa. Simply browse our collection to customize your chosen design. If youre looking to inspire a great back cover, read this post thats all about the book s back. When done well, it is an effective tool to utilize in order to give your book the best chance on the shelves, and hopefully you now have the tools to do just that. A man walks through the o in room as if it was a doorway to an actual room. This is very interesting and great to see the value of a professional book cover. This free book cover template includes a full front and back cover for a paperback or softcover, including an adjustable spine. For me it was money well spent and ive had some great feedback on the look of my books. The complete guide to choosing your book cover font with. It is a resilient type, that gives typographic book covers clean, elegant lettering, and an appearance of efficiency.
The cover for the first book, the corpse exhibition, ended up being a purely typographic design. What goes into designing an awardwinning book cover. This showcase presents a collection of 64 typographic book covers, all of which are interesting and are genuinely unique. The fact is, your book s cover design can survive and even thrive without photography. A successful book cover conveys not only a book s basic facts but also, often, an emotional aspect of its content. We have a collection of beautifully designed book covers for design inspiration that. Unique typographic design in sketchbooks, in print, and on location around the globe. Go 2 is an interesting album cover, which was designed and executed by the art design group hipgnosis. Futura has a modern feel, despite being 80 years old, and is a classic example of a geometric sans serif typeface.
The huge variety of typography on covers is mindboggling from conservative serifs to charmingly handwritten typefaces. If youre planning a childrens book cover, designing invitations for a fairy tale wedding, or creating birthday cards with a fantasy theme, you need a font that conveys a sense of wonder and magic. No matter how stunning your book cover is, or how amazing the story, choosing the right font for your book can make a big difference when you publish your book. Unique typographic design in sketchbooks, in print, and on location around the globe fowkes, alex on. It cannot be a killer illustration but rather it must use the best of all of these elements, yes, with compromises. Typography has endless importance to a books cover design.
Given that a book cover usually has very few words on it, and those words title, subtitle, authors name have a huge influence on buying decisions, this can be a major problem. A book cover is a dream project and the perfect canvas for some designers, it means that you have to abstract the whole book feeling to just a one. Here at lit hub, we unpacked the biggest book cover trend of the year, compared us covers to their uk counterparts, and remembered the best and worst covers of lolita as well as edward goreys own cover designs. The cover of this book is simply a photograph of handdrawn images on loose leaf paper. Story time was the fun part of school while delivering lifes lessons and eventually encouraging me to read. The 8 brilliant fonts you need to use in your book layout with type combinations and samples if you were formatting a book just the inside youd have to choose a strong, perfect body font for the main paragraphs and a complimentary and interesting font for titles, subtitles and chapter headings. Book covers usually need to convey two key pieces of information the book title and the authors name. In the novel, the main character claims to have discovered a secret room in the office he works in. So, i thought it would be fun to compile a couple of top ten lists. Wang zhihong is one of the most accomplished designers practicing anywhere in the world, and his book cover designs are frequently composed using only typography. When a book cover s height is reduced from nine inches to 90 or 115 pixels, readability is much more important than beauty but theres no excuse for an ugly cover.
Brain pickings has a free sunday digest of the weeks most interesting and inspiring articles across art, science, philosophy, creativity, childrens books, and other strands of our search for truth, beauty, and meaning. Fantastic typography can encourage readers to reach for a book here are 10 top book cover designs that use type to tantalise. Book covers today are often simple, revolving around a central imagery thats symbolic and can capture the essence or theme of the plot with one glance. Our choice of the 50 best book covers of all time the coolest book covers ever made. So, to give this a super clickbaity title, here are. Like europes constantly interacting and everchanging countries, its languages traverse national borders, blending and diversifying the continents cultural landscape. Its probably the most comprehensive of the books in this list as far as designing for the web. This cover uses gill sans and a traditional designs to evoke the the early penguin paperbacks. Here, reedsy dips into the business end of book cover design, looking at the three basic categories of cover design, what types of books theyre good for, and how much they cost. What 12 million human emotions have to do with iconic industrial design and the. Every heartbreak is a lesson, and apparently by the cover design it is likened to a science lesson.
Responsive design is covered in detail, and its full of code snippets and brimming with visual examples. And with so many different type designs to choose from retro fonts, script fonts and tattoo fonts, for example designers all over the globe are producing some cracking covers. A book cover these days has to fulfill so many requirements that it really cannot be a typography masterpiece. The title or author name can be the main imagery for the cover see the section on typography below. The 8 brilliant fonts you need to use in your book layout. Book cover typography the typography on your cover should include three things. At time of writing ive shared my thoughts on almost 150 different book covers. We gave you a brief visual history of virginia woolfs book covers and treated you. The most inspirational things are often right in front of us. Whether its silly or inventive, fantastical or artistic, you can make the book a piece your school will treasure. Hundreds of yearbook cover examples academic to artistic. Typefoundry s jonathan hoefler and tobias frerejones have called it the finest book ever written about typography. This covers bold, blocky letters are all spelling the same word, but in slightly different ways. Super simple to customize with your own sizing and design, this book cover template is the perfect canvas for creating your own printready layout.
Whether you are designing your book s cover or choosing the font for the body text of your book, i am going to show you five of my favorite fonts for cover and interior design. Award for best artwork, joey hifis artwork has become almost as famous as the book. A book cover design can survive and thrive without photography. The perspective and the positioning of the images and text make this cover pop off the screen. We cherrypicked 68 brilliant covers to give you some book cover ideas. For this reason, its vital to familiarize yourself with how type is used in so many cover designs today and how to choose the typography thats right for your story. The three types of book cover design every author should. But often, the designer incorporates an additional photo or illustration into the layout to convey the theme or mood of the book. The psychology behind book cover typography and how to choose the best book cover font for your next book cover design. When done right, brilliant uses of typography on a book cover can encourage readers to reach for the shelves and get nose deep in a novel.
When done right, a book cover with stunning typography design can. Covering everything from rhythm and proportion to harmony and counterpoint to analphabetic symbols, the tome remains a brilliant convergence of the practical, theoretical. He also asked that its status at the time that it was to be published in the u. His cardon copy project in 2009 was an illuminating experiment about message and content. Those books provide me the adventure i craved, allowed me to become a hero for a day and granted me permission to visit new worlds in my daydreams. When done right, a book cover with stunning typography design can encourage readers to reach for that particular book. Even the typography and the length of the title reinforced the whole scientific image. Bold text, serif fonts catch your readers eyes with a canvamade typography book cover. Book cover ideas that show typography interacting with real world objects are usually very well thought out designs. This set of 20 whimsical fonts blend elements of classic childrens book covers, handdrawn scripts, and vintage signage for an otherworldly feel.
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