Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Design Trend: Painterly Type

On a recent visit to Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, I naturally gravitated to the wall of new novel releases. For both Adult and YA, the type treatment of the moment is this painterly, brush-stroke-like hand lettering that's 1) quite large—as in, it takes up most of the cover; 2) a basic color, mainly white or black; and 3) at a slightly left-sloping angle. Some of my favorites:








Which then got the wheels turning and ultimately inspired the final iteration of Lauren Myracle's upcoming YA novel, The Infinite Moment of Us. A complete look at the making of the cover coming next week. Stay tuned!

4 comments:

  1. That's such a beautiful cover! Side note: do you know why it says A NOVEL on the cover of them? Isn't that fairly obvious? Or is it a type/design choice? Always wondered!

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  2. I've been looking forward to seeing the cover ever since you teased us with the font! Now I'm looking forward to the story behind it all :)

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  3. I LOVE this new trend. So visual.

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