What Kind of Book Jacket Appeals to You?

The first four entries in our poetry book jacket redesign project are outstanding. You'll find dark and brooding along with shades of nature in the varied approaches to a book jacket designed to entice you to pick up and buy or read.

However, there is one common design element that causes me concern — the use of large amounts of reversed light type on dark backgrounds on the inside flaps. Would you find it difficult to read? An accepted type treatment in graphic design, conventional wisdom advices that we limit use of reversed text to headlines, initial caps, pull-quotes, and other smaller chunks of text. Browse the gallery then share your thoughts in the forum on all aspects of these book jacket redesigns.