Welcome to my graphics shopfolio! At the moment, I am only taking non-committing requests for covers. There are also some premades up for grabs too!
I'll also be posting contest entries and other random graphics here, along with tutorials and tips a...
You gotta get your text right. It's the main thing someone's eye is drawn to on a book cover, so they've got to be able to see it, and it has to look nice.
First of all, let's talk about fonts. I already explained where to get fonts in the previous chapter, so read that if you haven't already.
Please understand that the font reflects the genre and says something about the mood and themes of the book.
Basically please don't do this:
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Can you see how that simply doesn't make sense when the genre of the cover is action or something like that. Script fonts are for teen fiction, romance, etc. Don't ever use them for sci-fi, fantasy, action, mystery, horror or any of the genres like that.
See how a script font looks much better here:
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And how a serif font looks much better here:
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And with sans serif, well to be fair, you can make sans serif work with most covers, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.
As for author names and subtitles, please don't use complicated fancy fonts. Just keep them serif or sans serif. We should be able to read them, and they aren't the main focus of the graphic, so it doesn't matter if they're not in a super cool font.
And by cool font, I don't mean this:
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You will never need to use fonts like that. Yeah, they were cool when you were ten, but if you actually want to make your covers look nice avoid fonts such as those.
And as a general rule of thumb, limit the amount of fonts on one cover to two, other wise it starts looking messy and unprofessional.
