Introduction to Book Cover Design

Overview

“Now I will tell you the importance of color for cover design and I will give you some tips to use it to your advantage. I will also talk to you about how typographic nuances the message and I will suggest a method for choosing fonts. ”

In this video lesson Daniel Bolívar addresses the topic: The color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Book Cover Design. Learn the essentials to design the front cover of a book from start to finish.

Partial transcription of the video

“The color Now that we have some ideas for the cover, We will start by putting color on them. In this lesson, I will show you some theoretical aspects of color for you to use well. Now I will show you how to integrate it into our sketches. Color is essential to express the book, since it is full of symbolic load and culture. There are tones that we identify as cheerful or warm and others as sad or cold. The colors change depending on how they interact with each other, so we will combine shades strategically. I will give you a short vocabulary for choosing a color palette. This is a color whe...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Book Cover Design

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (184)
• 3910 students
• 5 units
• 18 lessons (2h 36m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Art Direction, Bookbinding, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design