Like I said the other day, the first chunk from the second Minivandians book is out to the alpha readers. I had a bit of time this evening, so I started work on its cover.
What do you all think?
Or maybe this:
They probably need a little tweaking, but I kind of like both of them. They fit the story in the first novella.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
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Joshua Tolley
/ October 28, 2016I much prefer the first. The letter spacing on the second seems far too wide, and I’m not fond of the dotted “i” in that text style.
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daddybear71
/ October 28, 2016Thanks. That was my first preference, but others are pointing out that this find is rather hard to read in the 1 to 2 inch picture Amazon will show customers on their website. I may try to find something similar that is a bit more readable.
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John in Philly
/ October 29, 2016I found both styles hard to read. Maybe a change from all caps to upper and lowercase would help.
If you change to upper/lower case then maybe use a more interesting font for the uppercase, in the the style of an illuminated manuscript, and then use a font for the lowercase that is both easier to read, and grabs more attention.
Also the grey tones of the photo made it a little bit hard to recognize that it was snow instead of rock formations.
Cedar Sanderson has written about cover design on a couple of occasions.
http://cedarwrites.com/covers-and-writing/
http://cedarwrites.com/art-design/
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daddybear71
/ October 29, 2016Thanks!
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