TAKEN… by the LADY of the HOUSE

September 4, 2017

Capitalization as in the original.

font overload layout woes

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Hitch

7 years ago

Home Alone face, and three different godawful fonts. (n.b.: the “The Lady” font might be fine, for its purpose, if it weren’t used in such a busy mess.)

dtw

7 years ago

Reply to Hitch

…and the uneven line spacing isn’t helping the font mess, either :-/

David King

7 years ago

It’s taken no time at all by the lady of the house to create a lousy cover.

red

7 years ago

This cover would be much, much better if the author had used that cargo cult template Nathan is so fond of.

Naaman Brown

7 years ago

Reply to red

With author in Comic Sans and Title in Papyrus …

War Goat

7 years ago

But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career.

None of which includes cover design.

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