Weeping Water

J.T. Ruby · Fiction

Genre
Fiction
Formats shown
Front cover, Full cover
Deliverables
Front, spine and back wrap, eBook cover, Print-ready file
Design work
Cover concept, Photographic compositing, Typography, Full wrap layout, Print setup
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Full Cover

Full paperback cover held in a single colour.

Design approach

Colour

Everything here is one colour. Holding the whole wrap in a single blue keeps the mood intact and lets small differences in value do the work: the pale dress, the faint light at the horizon, the houses barely visible in the fog.

Typography

The title is eroded into the mist rather than placed on top of it, so the letterforms feel part of the weather. The figure faces away, which leaves the story open — the reader finishes the image.

Back cover

The same fog-bound landscape continues across the back, with the title repeated above a single block of copy, so the back stays as quiet as the front.