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Devine Lu Linvega

Would this attract your eye with interest if you saw this cover on a shelf?

Book cover mockup for Wiktopher.
38 comments
Cheerios de Bergerac

@neauoire I would at the very least pick it up and see what it's about.

Nicolas Nacq

@neauoire absolutely. It already did on your previous toot

Pixoshiru

@neauoire Very much so. The contrast is drawing the eye in and the design is striking.

tomasz stecko

@neauoire Have you tried larger text size for title and 100R maybe? Bit hard to see when i tried to stretch the image to physical book size

Devine Lu Linvega

@tomasteck ah yes, rek said the same. We'll make it larger :)

Lizbeth

@neauoire yeah for sure, love the sense of scale and mystery to it

Louis Merlin

@neauoire absolutely, but it would be even better if the title was a bit bigger. The font is quite thin and my hypermetropic eyes would have trouble reading it on first try

rostiger

@neauoire I would grab it just because of the shapes and values. It's beautiful!

ex_06

@neauoire yes but even more if the giant being was in the ocean with the boat, for a bit of fear :P

David JONES

@neauoire yes. And a more apocalyptic font would help. Came across this nice selection today design-research.be/by-womxn/

H3RALD

@neauoire yes! Are you guys (self-)publishing it already then?

Devine Lu Linvega

@h3rald yup, same as with Busy Doing Nothing, we got the hang of it now :)

H3RALD

@neauoire ahhh yes I knew there was something you published already. Maybe this will help re-kindling my will to read paper books again... 😊 Curious to see the printing quality of Lulu this time - last time I got something it was "Somebody knows Shoes" by _why (awesome "alternative" programming btw), and it was OK. Not amazing, but not too bad either.

Devine Lu Linvega

@h3rald it's pretty variable, we've seen some amazing copies of our book, but also ones where the binding's glue dried up and the cover separated.

Devine Lu Linvega

We're super happy to see the positive feedback on the cover, we'll do a couple more tweaks, and.. I guess, we'll finally move to release Wiktopher!

paloma kop

@neauoire love the contrast of scale and the path of the eye as you realize how large the creature is.

if there was more of a pronounced gradient in the background, with the very top of the sky being somewhat darker, it might help the title text pop more, along with the (snowflakes? raindrops? grain?) texture of the sky.

Devine Lu Linvega

@palomakop thanks! I'll try to darken the upper part a bit :)

Tendigits

@neauoire yup. It has a critical feature: makes you want to know more. I’m drawn in immediately.

mikael

@neauoire Yes, this would reel me in. Dune vybez.

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