How to design book covers

Eton, a Swiss painter who once taught at Bauhaus College in Germany, once said, "Color is power". Color is a very important factor in all artistic behaviors, and book binding design is no exception.

Book cover design belongs to creation, which is an organic combination of science and art, and innovation is the key, which shows the artistic style of book cover design, and the formation of cover design style depends largely on the personality of cover color.

Color is the expression element of beauty in human life. With the high development of modernization of material life, people's aesthetic taste of book color is getting higher and higher.

Therefore, designers should master the color personality of book covers and create book covers with distinctive characteristics and styles of the times.

There are many types of book cover design styles, such as simplicity, simplicity, free and easy, gorgeous, dignified and elegant, national tradition and so on.

The relationship between color personality and them is as follows: 1. The influence of color personality on simple and elegant book cover design style Goethe once said: "Simplicity and genius are twin sisters.

Indeed, simplicity requires designers to have high aesthetic ability and visual language expression. Simple and elegant design language is equivalent to "amazing words" in literature, which is the highest realm of binding design concepts.

This type of design style is mainly used for literary books. In the cover design of literary books, colors should be concise and clear, and less colors with similar hue, lightness and purity can make the works have higher grade, such as some white, gray and green with gold and white.