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Hello everyone, Almost everything has been finalised in my story. Only the info about the creators (Author and illustrator) is missing and I need to have a professional picture taken of me and my daughter, Evita (the illustrator), but I won't have the pic until mid November :(. Re the font type - I used Arial. Should I change to Times New Roman? I hope you can find a few minutes to write a comment on this almost-final draft of my story. I have a question: as you know Evita has done the illustrations, but the background was a bit greyish. I asked a graphic designer friend of mine to whiten the background for me and to do a few minor tweaks. I would like to ask her in the future to help me with the next books in the series, too. I like giving credit where the credit is due - where could I mention Stella's name? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i1oWSFC_8YNVQq0o9OyIj0wYQMGjDlh1
Oh, nice! Looks as creative as its topic. :)
ReplyDeleteSome suggestions to play with:
Try stacking the title words like (imagine them centered, though)
From
Pancake Art
to
Slime
Then capitalize Plans, but keep all that on one line as you have it.
I'd move the whole title up--maybe remove that solid white box? Shift the whole pale white box up?
Author name bigger. Possibly even a lot bigger. :)
I'm not sure how my title arrangement suggestion would look, honestly. So the results might not be as good. In that case, I'd just move the "to" to the next line. You want "Pancake Art" together, but "Slime" is looking lonely all by itself...
Very appealing! Makes you want to open it... (one question in general - will some readers see our covers in black and white? If so, how would it look?)
ReplyDeleteThanks :)
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ReplyDeleteOh, I like that second version! Do you? And yes, a few people will see the book on their own devices in black and white (people like me! who have super old Kindles). But the color cover would still show up on retail sites.
ReplyDeleteThe second version looks great!
ReplyDeleteIf you like that second version too, I'd see if you could make the title font larger (fill the space!), though the subtitle seems fine. Also I think you have more white space between "to Slime" and the bottom line than you do between "From" and the top line. But see how large ou can go with the font.
ReplyDeleteAh, one more thing... as you're playing around with fonts, you might look for one that has a single-story small a instead of a double. An image to show you what I mean. Just clearer for kids (and yes, I know kids aren't reading the book!). Anyway, you can experiment and see what you like. Sans serif fonts are very popular now for book covers.
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