A Review of Book Cover by Emma Simpson

Typography, Imagery and Colours

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    Emma Simpson

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    Typography, Imagery and Colours

    Posted on May 02, 2010 at 8:19 AM

    I've numbered my thoughts below:

    1. All these concepts are too similar to each other. Where are different colour variations, image variations etc?

    2. For me this shade of cyan screams cheap. It is a colour which works online but not so well in print.

    3. There are too many variations in font on the cover and the imagery is too cliched and obvious.

    4. This cover says cheap self published book and doesn't inspire confidence in the contents within it.

    5. The centred copy How to Really Get Rich etc isn't properly centred under the name above and the typography isn't kerned or anything.

    6. I've attached a very quick concept which is a pure typographical option - I'd treat the dollar signs as same colour as background with a spot varnish on or make them silver/gold with spot varnish to convey quality.

    I'm not saying this concept attached is by any means the right approach to take, merely a different approach.

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