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Originally Posted by btse1
Rather late to the party and rarely post, but with respect to the cover as originally shown here, perhaps I could address the font issue. I was once roundly criticized for mixing fonts in a sample cover of my own making (the critic was a knowledgeable professional). I did a down-and-dirty survey of book covers and quickly saw that his unity of fonts rule was correct for the most part. Yes, I know there are exceptions, many of them....
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Was this quite a while ago? Like, years?
I ask because it's been fairly standard, the last 5+ years, no matter whether we're talking Indy pubbed or trade-pubbed, for two different fonts to sit on a cover page. Top-selling authors (Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lee Child), tend to have one-font covers, but many others (David Baldacci, Patterson, etc.) have two. I agree, however, that of late, I've noticed a swing back toward single-font covers, as it was about 20 years back. (Probably a reaction to all the godawful covers out there--following the KISS principle!).
What's
dreadful is when someone goes wonky on the fonts. Then you get 4; one for the title, one for a logline; one for the byline, and one for something else. THAT will make your eyes bleed.
And let's not forget everyone's two faves: Papyrus and Comic Sans.
Hitch