Cover Design: I’d Like Your Opinion

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Ron Goetz

I’m choosing a typeface for the cover, and I’d like your input on some options. You can see I prefer serif fonts, but I’ve included one san serif. Some of the fonts are very similar, of course, but there are some textural differences.

I know, what’s inside is more important than what’s outside. I’ve been working on the content for years. But something has to go on the cover, right?

So–A, B, C, D, or E?

Any other comments?

 

Two Men in One Bed Two Women Grinding
A
TMOB TWG
B
TMOB TWG 3
C
TMOB TWG 5
D
TMOB TWG 6
E

About Ron Goetz

My first wife used to say, "There's nothing so sacred that Ron won't pick it apart." My desire to be a pastor -- that was a temperamental mismatch. She was so patient. If my birth mother had lived somewhere else, maybe I would've become a cold case detective. But I would have had to be J instead of a P, I think. And that mid-life reevaluation, starting adolescence as a GARB fundamentalist and transitioning to a non-theist, that gave me an unusual skill set.
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14 Responses to Cover Design: I’d Like Your Opinion

  1. Susan J Goodhue says:
    September 2, 2018 at 10:01 am

    I choose cover “C”.

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  2. Susan J Goodhue says:
    September 2, 2018 at 10:03 am

    PS: Forgot to add–the man on the left’s right hand??

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  4. Charles Kinnaird says:
    September 2, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    I prefer A, but I wonder if a combination of fonts would work? For instance, setting the title with example A and the author’s name with example C.

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  5. Sam Deetz says:
    September 2, 2018 at 12:10 pm

    I like A. I do not like C. But there is something very appealing about D

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  8. LaNeece White says:
    September 2, 2018 at 1:26 pm

    I like d.

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  9. youns says:
    September 2, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    As a former Graphic Artist and now a figurative oil painting portrait artist, without question it should be “B”.

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  10. Matthew Brian Winkel says:
    September 2, 2018 at 11:36 pm

    A is for Apocalypse! ;-D

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  11. Rich Fletcher says:
    September 3, 2018 at 6:09 am

    Ron, I used ‘Papyrus’ a few years ago for a book of poetry (I think that’s the font in ‘D’) – I liked it because I saw my book as something of an artifact, the contents being uncovered after many years…so I like ‘D’, but it’s definitely unconventional.

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  12. Cory Howell (@caspianrex) says:
    August 7, 2019 at 9:39 am

    Please, please, PLEASE…anything but Papyrus font! 🙂

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