Case study · Publishing

She! A book cover: wings of flame across a woman’s face

She! is an anthology compiled by Disha Agarwal. We designed its cover: two wings of flame meeting across a woman’s face, on cream paper, under a rough script title.

Book cover design

The She! cover: “Compiled by Disha Agarwal” in serif capitals and the title in a rough script on cream paper, above a face whose eyes are hidden by wings of flame orange, yellow and black

The cover

The wings’ tips curve up either side of the title, which sits in the open paper above them.

Below, the illustration runs down to the foot of the board, thinning into the paper as it goes.

Up close

Close-up of the title: She! in a rough script with broken, dry-pen strokes, and a line in a smaller script beneath it — The title: a script with rough, broken strokes, like a pen running dry.

Close-up of the right wing: red, orange and yellow feathers at its inner edge, black feathers at its outer edge — A wing: flame orange and yellow inside, black at the edge.

Close-up of the face: the wings' tips meeting across the eyes, leaving the nose, mouth and chin — The wings meet across the eyes; the mouth and chin are left.

Colour and type

Colour

The colour is all in the illustration. The lettering above it stays dark on the cream paper.

Flame
Yellow
Feather black
Paper
Ink

Type

Three voices, top to bottom: the compiler’s name in spaced serif capitals, the title in a rough script, and under it one line in a smaller, finer script.

Compiled by Disha Agarwal

Set here in Cormorant Garamond, a free face close to the cover’s capitals.

Credits

Cover design: Rivant
Anthology compiled by: Disha Agarwal
What we did: Book cover design