OMG, what is this, a plague? Another piece of very credible, decent art, ruined! Utterly ruint by that banner placement! and that godawful font! Honestly, it should be a chargeable offense.
Especially tragic since in the right hands, an obscured face on a cover can be really visually intriguing. I’m thinking of Random House’s recent edition of Dracula, that just featured a woman’s graceful neck.
This art is from Sandro Botticelli’s 1480 portrait of Simonetta Vespucci late wife of Giuliano de’Medici. Lotsa free images of this portrait. Botticelli also painted her in the classic Birth of Venus (Venus on the Half-Shell).
Last edited 3 years ago by Naaman Brown
Elijah
3 years ago
After seeing some of the truly awful covers on this site, why is this here? I don’t see anything wrong with the font, as long as it’s legible and not comic sans or papyrus I honestly couldn’t care less. I suppose the banner spacing leaves some gaps, but that leftover space makes it seem like this was done with intent. The banner is covering the mouth specifically. It’s probably supposed to look like a muzzle.
OMG, what is this, a plague? Another piece of very credible, decent art, ruined! Utterly ruint by that banner placement! and that godawful font! Honestly, it should be a chargeable offense.
Especially tragic since in the right hands, an obscured face on a cover can be really visually intriguing. I’m thinking of Random House’s recent edition of Dracula, that just featured a woman’s graceful neck.
Yes! I just don’t….so frustrating. SO frustrating!
Whyyy? Why would you do that? There’s plenty of space above and below the image! What in the world were they thinking?
Were they covering the watermark on that piece of art?
At first I thought they mindlessly threw art and text files into a cargo cult cover template and didn’t look at it before hitting “upload”.
Covering up a watermark on unpaid-for art does seem to be a hallmark of lousy book cover assemblers.
That’s possible, but I tend toward my “mindless slapdashers theory for this one.
This art is from Sandro Botticelli’s 1480 portrait of Simonetta Vespucci late wife of Giuliano de’Medici. Lotsa free images of this portrait. Botticelli also painted her in the classic Birth of Venus (Venus on the Half-Shell).
After seeing some of the truly awful covers on this site, why is this here? I don’t see anything wrong with the font, as long as it’s legible and not comic sans or papyrus I honestly couldn’t care less. I suppose the banner spacing leaves some gaps, but that leftover space makes it seem like this was done with intent. The banner is covering the mouth specifically. It’s probably supposed to look like a muzzle.
I think you’re being more generous assuming intent than the rest of us; most of us just see it as really bad layout.