But that is not true about the title or the author always being giant on covers of professionally published books. Like, the cover design of the Suhrkamp paperbacks is considered a classic modern book design look here and they looked like this for many years:
It's not true about color choice either, like on this cover the text is large but it is blue on blue:
There is a strategy by publishers here that designs books to be immediately at a distance recognizable as that publisher, like all have the same color or the same cover design. It's becoming less common as publishers design more based on the model you describe and they all go to more look like Sensational! Pulp! Covers!, but the other strategy still exists.
Like, Reclam does this, in part because they sell affordable paperback classics, which are all yellow unless they are in the original language when they are red, or blue when the are commentary for students, but they also publish new things, and their high end hardcover editions of classics also all have a consistent design, like they have a Latin/German Ovid metamorphosis edition with etchings by Picasso that costs 50€ (presumably because of the additional costs of the quality reproduction, also it is long) but on the cover there isn't a picture of an etching, nor is Picasso mentioned, nor is the author or title large. It looks like this:
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It's not true about color choice either, like on this cover the text is large but it is blue on blue:
There is a strategy by publishers here that designs books to be immediately at a distance recognizable as that publisher, like all have the same color or the same cover design. It's becoming less common as publishers design more based on the model you describe and they all go to more look like Sensational! Pulp! Covers!, but the other strategy still exists.
Like, Reclam does this, in part because they sell affordable paperback classics, which are all yellow unless they are in the original language when they are red, or blue when the are commentary for students, but they also publish new things, and their high end hardcover editions of classics also all have a consistent design, like they have a Latin/German Ovid metamorphosis edition with etchings by Picasso that costs 50€ (presumably because of the additional costs of the quality reproduction, also it is long) but on the cover there isn't a picture of an etching, nor is Picasso mentioned, nor is the author or title large. It looks like this: