endering the title (and author) of any book unreadable is always risky business. Whether it’s faded, cut off, fragmented, or abbreviated, messing with the title can produce haphazard and/or interesting results. Some of the following examples are more extreme than others, but all of them do something interesting with the type to make it a bit more difficult to read.

s I’m sure I’ve mentioned on a number of occasions, after college, I briefly considered a career in graphic design. For a variety of reasons I don’t want to get into, I ultimately decided that it was not the career for me. That said, my love of graphic design lives on, so I’ll be bringing you the Book Cover Spotlight, a weekly showcase of covers chosen around a particular theme.

Because the last graphic design class I took was a course on typography, I’ve decided to kick off the Spotlight with some examples of beautiful use of type.