These days I see that many authors choose very out of date and sloppy, unprofessional book covers that will reflect badly on their sales. Book covers beside that they are art’s they are also marketing tools and advertisements for your book. So I decided to write a text about book cover design secrets that WILL sell you more books. When it comes to designing covers for books, it’s important to use some manipulations or twists to ensure that the books receive attention. This includes various aspects. Let’s get to the most important of them:
1.POP UP AND EYE CATCHING ELEMENT
Whether we like to admit it or not we all judge book by the cover design. That is the first thing that we notice. You need to have strong contrast which is aimed at giving a maximum focus towards a particular portion of the image while the surrounding areas serve to lessen the tone of color used. The key is that the main object or character pop out, to get the attention of potential readers. Also, it’s very tricky to use contrasting in color (colors that are opposites on each other).
2.GIVE THE COVER SPACE TO BREATHE
A lot of authors make mistake when they want to fit everything from the story in the cover. It is not recommended for creating an entire story on the cover design. Readers will browse a ton of small thumbnail covers for only a few seconds before deciding whether to click it or not for more info. Creating a specific scene from your book story makes the thumbnail too busy. Having a simple image that is straightforward that brings out a message or element from your story is a key. If you’re handling with a lot of small elements and details to make sure that they match the book story precisely, it’s too busy already. And if you decide to use lots of elements at least try to choose a design where is the background is blended together with other elements smoothly, not just looking like someone put different images together.
3.CHOOSE THE RIGHT FONT
Choosing the right fonts is an easy way to represent your book genre and draw the right readers, but you can also ruin up by using too many different fonts. You need to pick a more interesting or stylish font for the title but write all the subtext (author name, subtitle, tagline) in clean serif of sans serif fonts. Lots of space between the author name and the title also helps to reduce the amount of clutter covering the page thus giving it adequate attention. Subtitles also serve as arousing interest in the book as they provide additional information about the book and give the reader a little more detail about the story therein. As a result, people can get the idea right from the cover page and as such, they can make better decisions.
These are just some of the book cover design secrets that contribute to better book sales leading to returns for the writers.
