How To Combine The Right Fonts Into Your Ebook Cover

Ebook covers are an important tool for selling your ebook because they support your sales message and make your book look real. You want to show 3D representations of your book or software box, not mere flat images. A 3D book cover or box image inspires confidence in your potential buyers, and this promotes more sales. But to inspire trust, you need to use quality cover images, not something that looks thrown together.

When you make a eBook Cover for your ebook, software box, or CD cover, you need some design skill, and marketing experience.

If you don't have it, you can hire a professional designer with a high design skill. Because that is the important thing. Samples are the primary way to evaluate a designer's skills. Look for evidence that the designer has the ability to create quality, professional-looking, effective cover images and knows how to work with fonts, colors and images.

To designing a high quality ebook cover, you need to choosing the right fonts and then combine it is very important to choose a font that is readable and appropriate for your audience.

This is some tips and information about choosing fonts that help you to make the right choice for your ebook cover :

1. Use one or two type of fonts. Never use more than three different fonts and use different weights of the same font. For example, use Tahoma Bold for the title and Tahoma for the subtitle. And please remember not too use so much text on your cover. It won't be readable anyway. The less text you use, the larger and more readable your text will be. You may want to consider using a shortened version of your actual book title for the cover image.

2. Use the largest, boldest font for the book title, a smaller size for the subtitle, and even smaller sizes for author name and any additional text. You can bold, italicize, or underline words and phrases for emphasis. Use italics and underline sparingly. If overdone, you'll loose the affect and reduce the readability.

3. Use text colors that contrast with your background to make your title stand out. However, make sure that the color of your text does not clash with the background color. Depending on your background colors, red, white and yellow often work well. You can also make your text stand out with special type effects such as drop shadows and outlines, but use these effects sparingly.

4. Consider placing the author's name and the web site URL as a watermark on the cover graphic to make it harder for people to steal your images.

There are literally thousands of fonts to choose from, you can build a small collection of fonts that work well for ebook cover design.

If you don't have it already, you can use the default font collection like Arial, Impact, Times New Roman, Tahoma, Garamond and other fonts you like that are readable and practical in smaller sizes.

Remember that the purpose of using a book cover is to inspire trust. Even if you give away an ebook, it should create credibility. If you want your ebooks to sell, use a high quality ebook image to represent your product.