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=Book Cover Design = 

====For all of the book covers I've chosen, they all display a strong color coordination. In the Harry Potter cover, it uses tones of blues throughout, with white highlights, as opposed to Landline's complimentary bright pink, orange and yellow layout, and both are in contrast to minimalistic Room, with only 4 bright colors, in contrasting colors (orange to blue, red to green). Even if you haven't read any of the you can get a feel for the tone of the novel, just from their color palette. Additionally, the sense of movement in the Potter novel is strong, with a U shape arc across the front cover and subtitle. The contrast in landline is stark from the flat shade of pink and orange, with the phone cutting the cover horizontally, as opposed to it vertically. For room, although there's not a lot there, the crayon like texture of the title along with the choppy lines used to write it provide an uneven rhythm throughout. ==== ====The Potter series has a continuous type set used for the words "Harry Potter" and the author "JK Rowling", but the subtitle type switches between the novels, choosing a sweeping cursive to match the sweeping motion of the imagery. Rowell's novel has the text slanted across the front, and incorporates its cursive into the image itself, winding down into the phone cord. Finally, Room has clean and easy to read font for all of the additional information on the books cover, but uses a child like font for the main title (to emphasis the childlike point of view of the novel's main character). ==== ====Each of the novels catch the readers point of view from the sneak peak into the story they all give. Potter's novel shows in in the height of the action in the book, but the reader doesn't know the scenario just yet. landline shows the main conflict of the novel, without tell the reader exactly what the purpose is of the yellow phone. And Room's scrawled type tell us that a child is most likely going to be telling us the story, or it will have heavy emphasis on children in some way. ====

Sources

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18081809-landline?from_search=true https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7937843-room