» there's only one you in the world,
but what are you doing spitting on your own face?
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listen, shrimps
-i've been in this business for over 5 long years-i've seen the good, the bad, and the oh-so ugly...
Yes I'm dividing this into parts bc if you know me and you know the graphics I make well then you know I love typography covers with all my life
Like, i never realised my blinding love for typography until i was cruising through my gallery and practically half my covers were text based lmfao
(Update : not anymore 😔 F)
: :
THE BASICS OF TYPOGRAPHY
This chapter is not about text based covers but rather for text in general.
Text has the ability to turn something basic into something amazing, OR turn something amazing into something basic.
I think it's because when making a cover or any other graphic, people want to see the TITLE or the words to give an explanation of what the graphic is for. If the title is not appealing or the typography doesn't suit the image, then people will immediately think the cover looks off.
So here are some things to take note of when titling your cover or other.
1. PAY ATTENTION TO GENRE
Making a Horror fic? Great! Search under the Horror genre on dafont.com! Romance? Script fonts work really good for them! Fantasy? Try Cinzel or Rumble Brave.
Please stop using script fonts for fantasy looking covers. It's weird to say the least.
Stop using fantasy fonts for romance looking covers too. Most of the time it just looks off.
Like take this for example
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Lmao?
The edit is ruined, or dulled down bc the text looks like it's meant to be in some sort of diary book when the edit CLEARLY is a fantasy one.
Now if we look at all the good fantasy fonts and pick any :
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