Publishers love to see the volume turned way UP on titles until they’re SHOUTING with demanding, bold typography. The digital thumbnail is the new storefront window, and as such, publishers often ask designers to ditch graphics in favor of colossal typography. This “trend” is nothing new and it’s probably not going anywhere soon.
It’s not easy to create an all-type cover that is ALSO interesting, distinct, and well-designed. Just filling the rectangular page with text is not enough. A good designer does this while making sure that not every cover with LOUD typography looks the same.
Here is a BIG collection of all-type covers, where typography reigns supreme and letters themselves have become the art. Explore the tag “loud text” for even more covers like these.
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I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel
Designer: Carlos Esparza
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Designer: Chris Brand
Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
The Trade Trap by Mathias Dopfner
Countdown to Socialism by Devin Nunes
Publisher: Encounter Books
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Designer: Thomas Colligan
Sweet & Low by Nick White
Designer: Jason Booher
Euro Whiteness by Hans Kundnani
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Against Decolonisation by Olufemi Taiwo
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
How To Argue With A Racist by Adam Rutherford
Publisher: The Experiment
Unreasonable Hospitality by Qill Guidara
Publisher: Optimism Press
The Last Samurai by Helen De Witt
What Is Anti-Racism by Arun Kundnani
Publisher: Verso Books
Free Speech by Andrew Doyle
Designer: Steve Leard
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Publisher: Verso Books
This Is Not Normal by William Davies
Designer: Steve Leard
On Animals by Susan Orlean
Designer: Alison Forner
Democracy’s Data by Dan Bouk
Crazy Sorrow by Vince Passaro
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Bleed by Tracey Lindeman
Of Boys And Men by Richard V. Reeves
Publisher: Swift Press
Why Men? by Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
A False Report by T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
Designer: Chris Brand
Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami by David Karashima
The Status Game by Will Storr
Designer: Steve Leard
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
Designer: Christopher Brand
“Good Americans”
Headscarves And Hymens by Mona Eltahawy
Designer: Alex Merto
Dick Cheney Shot Me In The Face by Timothy O’Leary
Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
Mediated Death by Johanna Sumiala
Designer: Steve Leard
What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri
Why Politics Fails by Ben Ansell
Designer: Pete Garceau
The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write by Gregory Orr
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
Designer: Alison Forner
Trouble Making by Lydia Hughes & Jamie Woodcock
Publisher: Verso Books
100% Democracy by E.J. Dionne Jr. & Miles Rapoport
Designer: Ben Denzer
What Went Wrong With Brexit by Peter Foster
Publisher: Canongate Books
Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
