How to do well the cover design in book design.

There are many forms of cover design, and figures, paintings, photography, colors and patterns are usually used as design elements. Writing is an essential content, including book title, book title, author and publishing house name. Graphics are decorative patterns related to the content and style of books. You can use abstract, concrete, hand-painted or photographic methods to make cover patterns. Color is also a key factor. Different types of books need to use different colors. It can be designed according to the content and style of the text and the reading object. For example, poetry and prose collections can be fresh and elegant, and children's books can use richer colors.

When designing book covers, it is very important to organize and lay out symbol elements reasonably. For example, when designing a cover with characters, the overall layout should be made according to their priority, density and reality, combined with their fonts, sizes and colors.

The steps of cover design mainly include the following four aspects:

1. Idea: design the cover, spine and back cover (front, side and bottom) of books in a unified way.

2. Composition and layout: When composing a composition, we should seriously consider the primary and secondary, density, virtual and real relationship of words, as well as the handling of font, size and color of words.

3. Draw the precise outline of words and patterns.

4. Coloring: The color should be saturated, uniform and clean.