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Book cover type and layout
Posted by beroe in
27 Mar 2010 — 10:20pm
27 Mar 2010 — 10:20pm
We are working on a cover for our book. We want to give a friendly first impression to a potentially intimidating topic. We have a great sculpture by Ann Smith as the centerpiece, but I'd like some feedback on choosing a typeface and layout. Right now we have 115% horizontally stretched Futura for the title text.
I've posted four design mock-ups to give you an idea, in addition to the preview above.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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27 Mar 2010 — 11:19pm
Stretching type is a bad idea. More information here: http://chrisbeesley.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-we-dont-stretch-type.html
28 Mar 2010 — 12:46am
Good to know. I should just choose from the hundreds of other typefaces that fit the bill w/o modification. Any favorites come to mind?
I wrote a script that rendered our title in all the fontshop and linotype sans options, and it is a bit overwhelming to try to choose. Avenir? Compati Fact? Finnegan?
28 Mar 2010 — 2:43am
I'd try Zag. It can be used clean or with the leafy flourishes, which might be a good fit for computers and biology?
28 Mar 2010 — 10:55am
Thanks Dave. Zag does look fun, though the flourishes are only on the super light version? Could manually recreate some I suppose.
I was somewhat convinced we wanted something on the plump side, but this face doesn't look austere at all.
Do the basic layouts look viable?
28 Mar 2010 — 11:08am
the flourishes are only on the super light version
Maybe you could stack them.
13 Apr 2010 — 6:01pm
The bird is a really fun image, and well photographed, but the typography is a real problem, and lets down the cover. I'd be happy to do some work with it on spec, if that's something you'd be interested in?
4 May 2010 — 12:10pm
http://www.no-spec.com/
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