Horns, Love Hurts Like Hell

Object: Horns, Love Hurts Like Hell, Novel By Joe Hill.

This book is a fiction young adult novel with a mix of fantasy and crime, where the protagonist has horns growing out of his head and some new powers at his disposal.

There wasn't much of a colophon or information online about what typefaces were used on this cover, which is the movie adaptation version of Horns, featuring Daniel Radcliffe on the cover. But according to a rough font finder application, the Serif typeface used on the book cover resembles one called "Sybilla Soft".

The typography was well done in terms of font choice and layout because the designer had chosen a serif typeface that really enhances the rustic, fantasy vibe of the cover, a typeface that could be found on an old map to navigate through a forest. The layout is similar to other movie posters, all of the important content is centred in the middle of the page, and the size and order of each content show the importance of each thing which aides in enhancing the message. The title is the biggest and in a different colour, yet "New York Times Bestseller" is above it, indicating that the designation is important yet not important enough to be bigger than the title.

This cover will influence my own creative work because of how well the cover demonstrates a great use of hierarchy and uses type size effectively to communicate important information, which I will also apply to my work if I ever have multiple pieces of information on a layout, I'll be sure that I can still stack things in a certain order, but use type size to emphasize what might be more important, just like the way the "New York Times Bestseller" is smaller but at the top over the title of the novel, where it's not as important as the novel title, but still an important distinction to have, I can use this method to help communicate it.

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