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Drew Briney's avatar

1 Go splash your face with water

2 out your bare feet in the dead grass

3 use the old fonts

4 breathe a sigh of relief

Jaime Buckley ๐Ÿ’Ž's avatar

THIS is yet ANOTHER good reason we are friends.

...making way to water now.

Drew Briney's avatar

Iโ€™m in Mt Pleasant presently - family thing โ€ฆ but not so far away!

Carrie Lynn Sobczak's avatar

I like the old fonts. Reuse.

Then celebrate this amazing accomplishment!

Shannon W Haynes's avatar

Yeah, I donโ€™t know what to say, but if this cover makes you uncomfortable, change it back to what looks right to you. Be you! Itโ€™s what you do best!

Jaime Buckley ๐Ÿ’Ž's avatar

Itโ€™s always a challenge for me,โ€ฆand maybe other writers donโ€™t have this problem, but this is from being a comic books creatorโ€ฆ

When something doesnโ€™t look right, I obsess until I can figure it out.

This community has helped me fix things faster than ever before, so I decided to lean on all of you and see if Iโ€™m missing something, too paranoid, or what.

Thank you, Shannon.

Joseph Vickery's avatar

The old fonts are great! If it will save you stress 100% go for it and I will be awesome!

If you want to try using the new ones I think you could.

I think your main problem is they look stuck together on the top

โ€œchroniclesโ€ is different from โ€œof aโ€ which is different from โ€œHeroโ€.

โ€œChoicesโ€ at the bottoms looks fine because itโ€™s separated itโ€™s its own thing

If hero looked similar to chronicles I bet it would solve the majority of your cringing/homemade feel. but thatโ€™s just a theory

Joseph Vickery's avatar

And I really like the old fonts too so thereโ€™s that.

Jaime Buckley ๐Ÿ’Ž's avatar

Me too...and I did go back to Henny Penny...cause it feels like the storyline.

Jaime Buckley ๐Ÿ’Ž's avatar

It's funny, but to me, Chronicles was throwing me off more than anything.

...but I got it solved.

Bendragon's avatar

Iโ€™m a little late, and I love the updated version, although I did notice that you completely got rid of the gem on the โ€œiโ€. Do you have plans to reincorporate the gem somewhere else? If not I feel like you might want to reconsider.

We have already talked about the benefits of having the gem on there, so Iโ€™m not going to rehash them.

Other than that, I really like the new cover, and I do think using the old fonts is an improvement even though I didnโ€™t realize it needed to be improved. Thatโ€™s my feedback for you, hope it helps

Jaime Buckley ๐Ÿ’Ž's avatar

AWWWWW BUGGER.

No -- for some reason I missed that, Ben. ๐Ÿซข

THANK you for pointing that out. It was artwork, not part of the font set, so when I deleted the old cover, it vanished and I missed it.

๐Ÿซต๐Ÿผ ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿผ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿผ

Bendragon's avatar

Glad I caught it, it was one of those things that was small, but it meant quite a bit.

Jaime Buckley ๐Ÿ’Ž's avatar

Refresh the article....I fixed it. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

Wezley Of Mearth's avatar

Been doing NovelEmber, got to 31K then had a fire with trees downโ€”power has been out for 3 1/2 daysโ€ฆ following up with a kidney infection and emergency trip so Iโ€™m not really back but just saw this go by and realized it might still be in time to contribute just an instant reactionโ€ฆ What about a texture with colour on the plain? Maybe slightly italicized? Just thoughts. (And I agree that the old font looks greatโ€ฆ I just didnโ€™t look at it in thumbnail or with the prospect of across the room in a bookstore.)๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ’ญโค๏ธ๐Ÿค—