typography

[capomes]

It's a tricky subject, involving swashes and serifs and display fonts and text fonts and decorative fonts, and of course, fonts that are absolutely perfect for your book cover, but have to be licensed, and have to be readable at 10 feet for a real book, and at 72x112px for a thumbnail and so on and so on

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[bogwitch64]

Seriously mindboggling.

[capomes]

I adore the internet and all the people who willingly share their knowledge--

[bmlg]

*admires dedication*

[capomes]

I wouldn't call it dedication, I'm more like a cat that's discovered a shiny new toy.

[bmlg]

I put my 3Day novels up on lulu.com, and I had so much fun playing around with the cover templates and art that I want to do another collection so I can do it again. I can see the attraction.
On the other hand, lulu does their best to make it utterly bog-simple for the non-technical mind, so ...

[barry_king]

There are also Inkscape and GIMP among the OSS offerings, which are probably better known. The first for vector graphics, the second for raster-art like photos. I heartily endorse both.

[capomes]

I'm not an artist, so I had to quickly look up "vector graphics" and "raster" but both programs look interesting--especially in the area of resizing. Am I right in thinking that .svg images can be scaled up without ragged edges?

[barry_king]

Yep. That's the idea. My two minute explanation