Please help me find a font for the cover of my new art book!

[CTyankee]

So far my editor (my graphic designer/editor is my talented daughter) and I have considered and mocked up my title in four fonts:

Optima was my fave until I saw the capital G is missing part of the G. Bodoni looks uneven to me. Avenir is a bit too thick. Helvetica Neue is the best so far, but it is really wide/large.

Do you have any suggestions? It will probably be a big book, because of all the artworks inside.

The cover is a Pre-Raphaelite St. Cecilia which is stained glass.

[LunaSea]

1. Beyond the font

I tend to consider how the font works with an image, with no image to consider, it's tough.
No mention of colors either.

Bear in mind you CAN mix & match as well as adjusting any aspect of the font you wish.
Looks uneven? straighten it out. Too thick? Make it thinner. Missing a part? Create what you want to see.
You can even output a font in 3d-effect lettering which opens up all manner of possibilities for adding highlights, shade or color.
Maybe hire an illustrator to create the font as stained glass.

Be sure to view it from a good distance too to judge the legibility. Should look good at postage stamp size.

[CTyankee]

3. The cover font is what I am looking for now. While the cover art is Pre-Raphaelite art, the rest

of the book is not. One essay is on photography (of the 1980s, b & w). One is art in the subways.
I liked the elegance of the Optima until I saw the missing piece from the capital G. It looked like a C and was distracting. I wouldn't know how to construct the missing part.

[LunaSea]

9. Your designer should know

how to customize a letter. Pretty simple in photoshop or illustrator, I've no idea what software you are using.
Copy a section from another letter that has the shape you like, slide it into place.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Make sure it's free for commercial use ... just because you see it in like Word doesn't mean

you can put it on the cover of a book you sell (i.e. commercial purposes).

Probably know this already since you're an artist (or at least into art), but just in case

[CTyankee]

4. I'm privately publishing. It will not be sold and only circulatiing among friends and my kids and

grandkids.

[brush]

5. You say your daugther is a graphic designer? Why not go with her opinion as that's what designers...

are good at?

[CTyankee]

6. Yes. She has my sense of tastefulness which I trust. Right now we are "trying on" fonts in

different scenarios. It's quite a lot of fun. I'd want to see a paragraph or two from different essays which are different art eras to see how the fonts come out.

[soothsayer]

7. Sans forgetica

Supposed to help you remember what you read (because you have to work a little harder at it).

Doesn’t work tho.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_forgetica

[CTyankee]

8. Oh, dear...

that's scary...