All The Bright Places

(my own photo)

The book cover (actually, it is the jacket) I have chosen is from a novel titled "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven. It is a young adult novel targeted to teenagers.

The closest typographic relative I could find to that used on the book cover for the title of the book is Garden Grown Caps, a non-serif typeface with medium to high contrast. I suspect a less bold version is used for the author's name.

The font choice is fitting because it has an almost handwritten characteristic to it. It is not perfect or even, which makes it look more organic and handwritten than a regular, stiff typeface would. The layout of the book cover/jacket is interesting because it pertains to the plot of the novel and even gives the reader an early insight to the novel. The typography is laid out over post-it notes because it is how the main characters first communicate and continue on to do throughout the novel. This is emphasized through the roughness of the post-its; they are not all laid flat, some are crumpled and scrunched, some have curled ends, which foreshadows perhaps the bumpy rides and obstacles the characters go through. Two post-its respectively have a drawing of a bird and a picture of a flower in correlation to the characters names, which are given in the post-it above those two. Just from the cover (/jacket), interested perusers already know three things about the story: post-it communication, and the names of the two main characters. The cover is both informational and eye-catching. 

This will influence my own work because it shows me how to integrate the inside of the book to the outside, visually. While a book cover must always have the title of the book and the name of the author, it can be so much more than that as shown above. It will inspire me to subtly foreshadow the inside through visual cues that will only be deciphered by those who read (or attempt to read) the whole book.