EDIT 2-17-13: Took a lot of people's inputs and incorporated them into the image. I hope you guys like the improvements I've made.
Next favor to ask.
Which composition do you like better? The image on the Left or the Image on the right?
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Well being that it's coming up on April and that's when I want to publish Brothers Martin: Forgotten Ties, I figured I'd better get off my duff and get the proposed cover finished.
So I am posting this here to get any feedback I can get on the effectiveness of the composition and colors on this proposed book cover.
I prefer the one on the right, but I think the font choice is not suited to a cover. Have you checked out all the fonts available at dafont or 1001freefonts?
The font itself looks like one of the basics in the MS Word package. Perhaps there are just fonts that I personally think "fit" titles, and this one to me doesn't. It seems to lack that "Hey, check this out! I'm totally cool and worth it," factor. Might be because the eyes slide off it due to the cursive/curviness.
I will go with the one of the right. It really stands out, and the only thing I can think of to possibly make the one on the right stand out better would be to make the foreground a bit lighter in color. That's it. But even if you didn't it still holds up well.
I will try out a few more to see if something else looks better.
And thank you for the input!