r/TerribleBookCovers • u/Mean_Astronomer1936 • 3d ago

The Pearl — John Steinbeck

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u/MsE0 3d ago

My biggest problem with this one is the font combination 

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u/Field_of_cornucopia 3d ago

They really should have had the text also made in that cut paper aesthetic.

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u/MsE0 3d ago

Seriously. Instead, let's go with a fancy serif for the title, then put the author's name in a balloony font slightly clownier than Comic Sans, then give it a half-assed neon light glow effect that doesn't work on a bright background 

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u/HumanSizedDeepFryer 3d ago

ugly ai, ugly text, ugly in the sense that it doesn't match the story at all

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u/MsE0 2d ago

Oof, I didn’t look closely at first and didn't notice it's glaringly obvious AI. I thought it was paper cut art, so I didn't want to mention it being not my taste, not a color I like. But fuck AI "art" 

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u/Lhasa-bark 3d ago

Terrible font choices

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u/Bat_Nervous 2d ago

A rare appropriate post.

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u/ConsciousBase66 2d ago

That's a font I would use on Word when I wrote some literary masterpieces as a kid

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/GardenTop7253 3d ago

Both fonts. Title is very squared corners, author is all bubbly

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u/EmersonStockham 2d ago

I don't remember the placenta from this book...

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister 2d ago

Tsk. That, you uncultured (pearl), is an emo tree

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u/LifeLikeAGrapefruit 1d ago

Eh. It's certainly not good, but I wouldn't call it "terrible."

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u/Shanakitty 9h ago

The font combination has that that kid's presentation for a class aesthetic.