Antonia’s Top Ten Tuesday- Cover Trends I Like/Dislike

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s prompt is top ten cover trends you like or dislike most. I’ve decided to do a mix of both.

 

Cover Trends I Like

1. Pretty Dresses-

When it comes to clothes and shoes, I am such a girly-girl. I love wearing dresses and wish I ever had occasions to wear the beautiful ballgowns and evening dresses I see so often on book covers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Dark with a Splash of Color- 

I don’t know what it is about these covers that intrigues me, but I think the contrast between the dark or gray-scale and that pop of color is striking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Dragons-

I’ve always been fascinated by dragons and seeing one on a book will make me instantly pick it up and read the description.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. A Simple, Title-Only Cover-
It doesn’t have to be completely blank, but covers that only have a simple design around the title make me want to know what the book’s about since the cover doesn’t tell me anything.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. One Object that Connects to the Book-
It’s easy for me to imagine what the characters look like and my vision of them doesn’t usually match how they look on the cover. I love when, instead of showing the main character(s), a cover has a design of an object that’s important to the books plot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover Trends I Dislike

6. Partial Faces-

I really just don’t understand this trend at all. Whether its book covers, movie posters, selfies, etc. What’s the point in showing half a face?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Cartoons-
I don’t want to feel like I’m reading a children’s book when I’m not in the children’s section. (Note: I have nothing against Rainbow Rowell or these books. I’ve heard good things about them, I just couldn’t think of any other cartoon covers off the top of my head.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Rainbow or Clashing Colors-
I find covers with tons of colors or with colors that don’t work well together (or even just one color that I don’t like) distracting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. Busy Covers-
If there’s too much going on, I feel like the book is going to be chaotic. When I’m trying to scan shelves quickly, I don’t want to have to take five minutes to figure out what’s on the cover. Also, if the title font is hard to read. I know fancy fonts are pretty, but if I can’t read it easily it sort of defeats the purpose.