i recently finished the first lemoney snicket book which i quite enjoyed. cheshire dave has a review of the cover here. he liked the cover but complains about the font. i guess designers are really picky about fonts, because if he hadn't mentioned that it was the same font as used for les miserables i would of never noticed. does familiarity with a font automatically make it useless in other settings? i guess when i look at a font i'm more interested in if it fits in well with the theme or context of how it is used. i don't sit there thinking oh no, such and such used this font. so i cannot touch that one. of course maybe that is why i am not a designer. i do wish the cover of the book didn't imitate a cloth cover but was actually a cloth cover. but oh well.

this reminds me of the schocken classic franz kafka books that came out in the 80s. the whole series has nice covers with woodblock prints as the illustrations. i really loved the feel and design of those books. they seemed to really suit the kafka stories, but later i discovered other books using the same design. i was really disappointed as it rendered the kafka covers less unique. maybe schocken saw it as the style for their whole classic series, but i would of rather seen each author given a unique style. of course it could be that kafka wasn't even the first in this style, but just the first one i saw. regardless, i was disappointed.