Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers Featuring Unique Typography


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I like the typography of all of these covers.

Book cover for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Image on cover is a red handprint that has the title and author’s name written in white ink on all five fingers and on the palm of the hand. Very creative!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

Book cover for In the Woods by Tana French. Image on cover shows the title and author’s name drawn to look like branches in a tree. There are dozens of tiny branches sprouting from every letter which makes a marvelous effect. It’s like visiting a bush or tree in winter and seeing just how many branches they have with their leaves shed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. In the Woods by Tana French

 

Book cover for Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline. The font of the title and author looks like it was made in the 1970s or early 1980s due to how it straddles the line between orange, red, and yellow. In the letter O, there is a tiny white key hidden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline

 

Book cover for The Anatomical Shape of a Heart by Jenn Bennett. Image on cover shows the red words in the title stretched out a little and formed into the shape of a heart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. The Anatomical Shape of a Heart by Jenn Bennett

 

Book cover for Dust (Dust, #1) by Joan Frances Turner. The word dust in the title has been typographically designed to look like dust that has temporarily clumped together. There are still little green and yellow particles of dust flowing away from the word Dust, though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Dust (Dust, #1) by Joan Frances Turner

 

Book cover for Oil: Anatomy of an industry by Matthew Yeomans. The word oil is written to look like drops of oil that have spilled onto an off-white surface on this book cover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Oil: Anatomy of an Industry (Bazaar Book) by matthew yeomans

 

Book cover for Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer . Image on cover shows the title and author’s name written on a white background that is filled with with what looks like dozens of either smudged human fingerprints or little black oblong objects that are roughly that size and shape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

Book cover for Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) by Toni Morrison. The word Beloved is written in an elegant gold font against a red background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) by Toni Morrison

 

Book cover for Bult by Marieke De Maré. Image on cover shows the word Bult written in a large, plain font that’s so tall and straight it almost looks like the walls of a building. There is a scraggly black line waving up and down below this word.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. Bult by Marieke De Maré

 

Book cover for The Color Master: Stories by Aimee Bender. The title and author of this book are written in a beautiful cursive font that gradually shift colour from green to blue to purple to red to pink as one’s eye scrolls down the cover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10. The Color Master: Stories by Aimee Bender

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50 Responses to Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers Featuring Unique Typography

  1. Tana’s is really cool looking and at one time I owned Jenn’s, which always stood out to me. In fact, I think I was going to add Jenn’s to my list, and then didn’t but it definitely seems like a great design and look based on the title. 🙂

  2. I love the way Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and The Anatomical Shape of a Heart fit into the shape of the design.

  3. The one for In the Woods always tempts me, even though I tried a Tana French book and didn’t get along with it… I keep meaning to give her work another shot, hehe.

  4. Jonathan Safran Foer’s books always have such unique typography! Very eye-catching. Also, in all the time I’ve seen the Ready Player One cover, I think this is the first time I’ve noticed the details in the “O”! Great picks 🙂

  5. These are fantastic! I especially love Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close:-)

  6. Lovely choices, I like the simplicity of Oil, it’s such a clear association

    Thanks for sharing your #TTT

  7. These are all unique covers. Each one is eye catching.

  8. These are all so unique! I think Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is my favorite though 🙂

  9. Oh, these are great! I love book covers that put the title into a shape, the way that The Anatomical Shape of a Heart does.

  10. These are excellent examples of beautiful or interesting typography. My favorites are Beloved and Dust.

  11. I read and loved Into the Woods, but never paid attention to the cover! Great choices!

  12. Wow! These are pretty unique, so hard to pick which one I would like best. Have a great week!

  13. Oil is very clever. The Jonathan Safran Froer ones are also very eye catching

  14. Poinsettia

    I really like the cover for In the Woods! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!

  15. I love those. Beloved has such a beautiful cover. Happy Tuesday!

  16. That Oil cover is simple, but really grabs my attention. Great picks!

  17. Wow, you chose some really amazing designs! Oil is just perfection, and The Anatomical Shape of A Heart is so beautiful!

  18. Nice work! The Woods gets my vote for best. All were good though.

  19. Wonderful choices, Lydia. I especially like In the Woods and Dust. Thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog.

  20. I really like the cover of In the Woods. I need to catch up on the series. 🙂

  21. Veros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders

    ah I like that a dusty looking dust is next to an oily looking oil! Those are some really great choices! Thanks for visiting my blog yesterday 🙂

  22. I love the IN THE WOODS cover. The story is good, too!

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

    Susan
    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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