OUIL503- In Cold Blood Cover- Cover 1 Development

After working through the initial roughs, I went on to develop the cover digitally. With a rough layout and design in mind, I set about working out how the image would sit on a cover and how best to utilise the space I had.

Because the imagery on the page was very simple and pretty much already sorted, I decided to focus on what type I would use on the cover. I realised the type on a book cover is incredibly important, and because type is never something I have looked into before I was a bit of amiss as to where to start as I had no clue of the 'rules' and what would generally work well.

I decided to look at different types that would have been around at the time of the crime, if there was any lettering used specifically with the investigation or and handwriting I could have used. This lead me onto the actual article of the crime as published at the time and the fonts used in that.



I thought about what fonts would work well on a cover, and the headline text I thought would look great. As well as looking good, I thought the type perfectly reflects the investigative arc of the story and how much it was looked into by the media.



Here is my now current use of type on the cover, I decided to use a mixture of upper and lower case lettering to try and reflect the criminal nature of the book, as well as to enforce the multiple articles produced about the crime.