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Shakespeare's Covers Revised

A revision of titles for three great plays by Shakespeare based on the a typeface I created in Typography class.
I kept in mind Shakespeare’s themes of regality and principle coming into action to create horrid betrayals and crime.
Since it isn’t an actual trilogy I ordered the books by age of title character which also shows, I feel, the incremental levels of debauchery from Romeo and Juliet’s little bloodbath to Macbeth’s complete destruction of a country and Lady Macbeth’s madness.
I’ve also grown the titles from lower case to upper case to highlight this order I’ve somewhat arbitrarily created.
So nice cheery little themes to work with like these deserve these cheery little covers.
I’m trying to keep in mind Romeo and Juliet is something of a Twilight of its time and that this, maybe, could be a way for people to start reading this book again so they can realise how absolutely kick ass Shakespeare really fucking was.
I hope the color choices are what I intend for them to suggest naturally, but any other interpretations would be great too of course.
Shakespeare's Covers Revised
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Shakespeare's Covers Revised

A revision of the cover design for three great plays.

Published: