Friday, July 24, 2020
Cover Trend That One Serif Font
Cover Trend That One Serif Font          I love me a good book cover trend. This is one youve seen everywhere. Its similar to the big cover trend of 2018, outlined by Literary Hub, but with one tweak. Instead of a big, bold sans-serif font on a vibrant background, these have a serif font on a solid background. Simple. Gorgeous. Its a good trend, Brent.  The majority of the books with this treatment are non-fiction by and about white women, with a few exceptions. If you flip through a list of feminist works of 2018, a good chunk of them will fit this cover trend. I guess its a ~girly~ look? Its also the go-to font for a lot of fashion blogs right now.  It seems like the trend got started in 2017, with these two:      The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture,  Feminism by Anna Fields    Sex  Rage by Eve Babitz  But THEN 2018 happened, and, hoo boy, have we got a lot of them. Lets take a gander. Also, sorry (not sorry) in advance, but you will be finding this cover trend everywhere now.      Black Swans by Eve Babitz    Conscience: A Novel by Alice Mattison    The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash    Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin    Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings by Jez Burrows    Feminasty: The Complicated Womans Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson    From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein    Horse: A Novel by Talley English    MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks by Charlotte Bingham    Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige    Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life by Mari Ruti    Putney by Sofka Zinovieff    She Called Me Woman: Nigerias Queer Women Speak, edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, ?Aisha Salau    Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs    Someone Has Led This Child to Believe: A Memoir by Regina Louise    Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering    Unwifeable: A Memoir by Mandy Stadtmiller  Note that I *do* work in book design, but Im not, like, super savvy in the world of typefaces, so dont @ me about these not all being exactly Bodoni Old Style Bold. THEYRE CLOSE.  Other book trends this year: floral fiction, ultra violet YA, and the art of YA book titles.  
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