Cover Help

The light author name pops to my eye [but then it also looks like part of the title].
The dark author name doesn't draw my eye as much [but doesn't look it's part of the title either].
So... Sorry No help here
I'm glad you told us the name of the story, I couldn't work out "MALAHA" from the script you've used...

 

The font used for the title in the first two covers is definitely hard to read. The other title font used is readable. As skip.knox says, it doesn't need to be creepy. But I don't think it's that bad either. The real test is to make the thumbnail and see if it is still readable.

The tag, "The Cursed Child," would work better beneath the title, all on one line, I think. I'd like to see how that looks, anyway. Not as far down as it is in the first two covers.

I also agree with skip about the placement of the author's name. It covers an interesting part of the cover. I'd move it down, so that it's nearer the bottom edge of the image (but sufficiently above the bleed line, of course, if you might be using the image as a cover for a print version).

As for the color of the author's name, I like the feel of the darker text, but I'm not confident it would stand out in a thumbnail. I'd experiment with the light author's name text and try adding some dark effect -- emboss, outline, drop shadow, etc. -- but only at about 25-50% opacity and not very thick, to see if that helped give the light title a darker feel while still having it pop out in the thumbnail.

For the dark text to work, I think the background image would need to be lighter in the area where you place the dark text, to get it to pop at thumbnail size. But such lightening might ruin the mood of the image.

 

I would say that you should normalize the text, move it both as high as possible and as low as possible and let the Outstanding picture speak for itself.

Of course, YMMV.

 

Hi,

The graphic doesn't do it for me I'm afraid. It's not striking enough. Perhaps some work with colours and lighting might help. My latest - Wolves - has a greyscale wolf with yellow eyes which works quite well. As for the text, the angled text you used initially I couldn't read at all, and the sort of wavy text you changed it to is readible but not really that much more striking. Also if the cursed child is a subtitle, it needs to be below the main title.

Cheers, Greg.

 

I like the third picture, then the first. Don't like the second

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