Gotta admit, I’m not getting Escher from the jewelry at all. What does bug me, though, is the apparent age difference between the two “hands.” Anyone else getting “child hand” for the one on the left?
I hope that I’m either misreading the genre/storyline, or that the hand is…oh, hell. Whatever.
Also, reader’s note: I persist in reading this as “Eleven Roses,” as if somebody got screwed on their order of a dozen. And being that I read a fair number of fantasy/epic saga-type books, I’m pretty au fait with the term “Elven.” It’s just that those two words together–the word shapes–conjure up 11 Roses. Sorry, Indy author!
Me also. It’s like my mind fills in the gap between the L and V.
Old geezer gripe: If we had a gap in a title at the Press, the metal type would be sawn at a slant; 1970-1994 photocomp had a backspace command; after 1994, most postscript fonts had letter pair kerning values to avoid that. Well, not Papyrus, or that font up there, but most fonts. There’s no excuse for some of the lousy type on lousy book covers, it’s just laziness and lack of care.
Y’know the optical illusion? I think it’s the “World of FIVE nations,” text, immediately above the title. I think that’s what causes it…the eye sees a number, and there you go.
Gotta admit, I’m not getting Escher from the jewelry at all. What does bug me, though, is the apparent age difference between the two “hands.” Anyone else getting “child hand” for the one on the left?
I hope that I’m either misreading the genre/storyline, or that the hand is…oh, hell. Whatever.
Also, reader’s note: I persist in reading this as “Eleven Roses,” as if somebody got screwed on their order of a dozen. And being that I read a fair number of fantasy/epic saga-type books, I’m pretty au fait with the term “Elven.” It’s just that those two words together–the word shapes–conjure up 11 Roses. Sorry, Indy author!
I can’t quite read the product barcode on the child-like hand, looks like 2627977074. That might be the answer.
Why does she have a bar-code on her wrist?
Oh, and I also saw “eleven” at first. I think the kerning doesn’t help; there’s a gap in front of that “L”.
er.. I mean behind that “L” and in front of the “V”. Sigh, blame it on sleepy hands doing the typing.
I see eleven too. Weird optical illusion.
Me also. It’s like my mind fills in the gap between the L and V.
Old geezer gripe: If we had a gap in a title at the Press, the metal type would be sawn at a slant; 1970-1994 photocomp had a backspace command; after 1994, most postscript fonts had letter pair kerning values to avoid that. Well, not Papyrus, or that font up there, but most fonts. There’s no excuse for some of the lousy type on lousy book covers, it’s just laziness and lack of care.
Pictured: Thrten roses.
Y’know the optical illusion? I think it’s the “World of FIVE nations,” text, immediately above the title. I think that’s what causes it…the eye sees a number, and there you go.
I think the illusion is that “Elven” is a real word.
Elfin, Elphin, Elvan, Elves, Elvis – check.
Elven – nope. There is probably some arcane reason for that.