There’s a famous writing saying that gets banded around the internet:

It means that sometimes, no matter how much you love a scene, a character, or some other element, sometimes it has to be brutally cut from the book if it doesn’t have a purpose.

I spent a long time (quite a few days) designing a title for the front of the book. I had in mind what I wanted it to look like and I drew it using Photoshop. When I got some feedback for the book, the title I had designed was noted as not being appealing. I can take criticism no problem so I set to work on a new title and designed a few different styles that were fancier and eye catching.

When I got feedback on the new fonts, they were too fancy and detracted from the picture. I was advised to use a standard font. I felt like crying. Days of my lives went into making a nice font that kids might like. As a designer and artist it was hard for me to come round to the idea that a fancy font just didn’t do the job that a regular font did. I couldn’t deny that a standard font appeals to people’s eyes, it’s easily readable and most of all it does actually stand out!

So I uploaded a new cover with a bog standard font (the same that I used for the interior) even though I wasn’t really happy with the choice, I knew it was for the best.

What do you think? These were my designs, do you think I made the right choice in the end?

Thanks for reading! In my next article I’ll be asking your opinion on gender roles in kid’s books.