Lousy Book Covers
  • Judging Books By Their Covers
  • Copyright
  • Cover Design
  • “Can You Do Better?”
  • Submit a Cover

V2

February 17, 2013
Nathan
Covers

V2

Why is vertical type a bad idea? Ask the capital “I.”

Should this cover be in the Lousies?
layout woes   readability
Previous postBullet Blues
Next postBefore I Die
Want to keep YOUR cover off LousyBookCovers? Visit Cover Critics for feedback BEFORE you publish!

Top Posts & Pages

  • Targeted
  • New Covers For Old 2026: Day XXVIII
  • 5 years after
  • Do You Ask It Right
  • Klylii: A Klylii Metamorphosis
  • Gateway to Nifleheim
  • The Dragon and the Santa
  • Cthulhu 4 Kids: Old Ones at the Beach
  • The First Adventure of Sir Garamond de Crecy
  • Heart Of The Matter: a life of scribble
actual title please art for a refrigerator aspect ratio bad font choice BOO-ring bringing sexy back bulletin board layout busybusybusy Cargo Cult Template credit where credit is due cue the attorneys cut and paste do you even english false flagging filteriffic font boredom font overload four of five dentists agree Go home AI you're drunk image search gone wrong instamatic kern your cursive layers upon layers layout woes mismatched art styles MS Paint reborn! Mystery Meat Nagilum om-nom-nom de plume on the nose photobombing pixelation pseudohumans punctuation matters random imagery readability seizure risk text and more text The Borrower typo wink wink nudge nudge WordArt WTF your scanner sucks

Recent Comments

  • Another Bob on Outcasts, Lies, and a Legend
  • Zsuzsa on The Last Generation
  • RK@HM on The Last Generation
  • Marc on Roll in the Hay: A protective hero, small-town off-limits romance (Stepping it Up)
  • Nicholas Dollak on Roll in the Hay: A protective hero, small-town off-limits romance (Stepping it Up)
  • Frith Ra on Smitten with Sirens (Romancing the Sirens Book 1)
  • Frith Ra on Roll in the Hay: A protective hero, small-town off-limits romance (Stepping it Up)
  • Frith Ra on Kordano’s Collection: Five LGBTQ+ Stories: Inspired by Truth, Love & Fiction (LGBTQ+ Short Stories by Kordano)
  • Frith Ra on How Hot It Be in Hell: Poetry (Inside The Circle of The Sun…)
  • RK@HM on New Covers For Old 2026: Day XXVIII
  • RK@HM on The Consequences of London
  • Frith Ra on John Harm, Private Detective. The Case of the Evil, Global, Shadow Conspiracy: Also includes Disgusticon the Transformer and The Heist of the Century + Bonus Track!

All the Nathan

  • Blast From the Past: #1,636 Revolution
  • Blast From the Past: #418 Talent
  • Blast From the Past: #1,018 Admission
  • Blast From the Past: #307 Sprung
  • Blast From the Past: #1,726 Gone, Fishing
  • Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.

    The post Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post. appeared first on NathanShumate.com.

Copyright © 2026. Created by Meks. Powered by WordPress.
    FacebookXRedditPinterestEmail