DNGO Books
Details
DNGO books specifically aims to incentivize people to collectively create multilingual audiobook archive, mainly to serve visually impaired people. DNGO Books is also based on Fair Share Script.
Benefits / Improvements
According to project owner, they are going to include books and author names dynamically through code, I took a look at different book names to see their lenghts. There are book names with only one or two short words while there are six to seven words.. So place for the book title couldn’t be fixed amount, it wouldn’t work if I limit it to only two lines or so.. I decided to keep it clean and simple while populating with the project’s logo as a border, seperator or watermark. It looks elegant with this simplicity and won’t cause any overlapping texts. It will help with readiblily in small sizes such in Book search page and Book detail page..
I also exported every layer separetly so developers can easily apply those dynamically with their code.
As fonts, I used Montserrat which can be easily used as a webfont from Google.
As proportioning,
Title is Montserrat Regular with 10x font size
Author is Monsterrat Bold with 8x font size
I tried many variations through process, like centering the text for example and it wasn’t working with every custom title so it would be better to use these text areas as left aligned.. Tried to apply dngo logo as a backgrpund pattern but since those title and author will be applied later dynamically those patterns had a potential to hurt readibility so in the end best choices were left. Vertically centered, left aligned text with different font weight and sizes to differentiate author name and book title.
Tools
Affinity Designer
Original files
Download: dngo - Google Drive
Font: Montserrat
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Very Good! Simple and minimalistic. :)
Thank you
Honestly, I would expect more than this. Not sure what to think about these covers.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm aware that they are not the most charming covers yeah.
But as I tried to explain my reasons, there are a variety of book names and when it comes to modularity I couldn't find a right amount of space to spare for title/author.
There is a book called Pip & 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading
If I spare only the top half of the page for title then Pip would lost in space, and other one wouldn't even fit there with an easily readable text size.
I've used a plain background, thinking about instead of using a 1000x1600 pixel image for every book, devs could use it as a div(?) with a background color to avoid over-using resources.
In the end I needed to use big texts to help with readibilty in details page..
When I think about all of those, above ones the best versions I came up with.
Hope POs will find what they are looking for.
and here is a better alternative https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@youssouf/task-request-dngo-book-cover I didn't thought about using all caps. It looks better IMO, and all those colors etc.
Simple yet superb.
Winner 👆
Thanks, but I doubt :)