If you been following the blog here at bonfx.com you have undoubtedly been made aware of my new book in the works. How do you promote a book? Well, if you have followed any news about the iBookstore for iPad, or the Nook or Kindle, you know that the old school Publisher/Author model is over with, and the new models rushing in like water from a burst dam. The bottom line is that talking about your book on the web is the new model, pretty much. Everything else is a footnote.
So what do I have to share with you today? I have the preliminary cover artwork concept done for the “The Big Book of Font Combinations“. The entire book has a sparse design ethic, and the cover is in keeping with that design language. Our blog branding does the same, and our lead in preview images for the book from some months back established the look and feel we are following through on.
My favorite aspect of the design is that it shows (as of right now) all the fonts that are used in the book to create all the font pairings. The cover is a preview of the entire book. I’m very happy with the concept, and we’ll let the design concept rest a while as the production of the content entire the final stages.
Find my typos and tell the world about them!
So, in the interest of generating buzz and hopefully some tweets and facebook mentions, I’m posting this sneak preview of the design. If you have any feedback, I’d love to get it as soon as possible, since nothing is written in stone at this point. I’m also known as the worlds worst copy editor when I’m in design mode, I kid you not. So be a pal and let me know if you find an egregious typographic oversite!
In the meantime, check out the “Font Combos” app for iPhone, which also has the same branding and works from nearly the same set of fonts for creating pairings. It will give you something to do while you wait for the book :).
Concept cover art for “The Big Book of Font Combinations”
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Nice idea for the cover, Douglas — I’m looking forward to the book coming out.
Just one small typo I noticed: you have “Gil Sans” listed. As I’m sure your know, it should be “Gill Sans”, after Eric Gill, the typographer, sculptor and all-round fruitcake who designed it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill
Hi Keith: I posted this hoping someone would indeed find a typo or two! I will indeed fix the Gill Sans error. Yes, Gill was indeed a strange bird…Thanks so much!
Oops! Just spotted another, Douglas. “Eurostyle” should be “Eurostile”.
http://www.linotype.com/384/eurostile-family.html
Well there is the “two” in “…find a typo or two”! I am indebted to your editing prowess!
What’s strange is I can spot an unbracketed function or a missing semi-colon in a line of code from across the room. 🙂
@ Keith: I fixed both typos. Thanks again!