8 Beautiful Typographic Book Cover Designs

Sometimes a great book cover needs nothing more than beautiful typography, basically just let the book’s title grab the reader’s attention. Here are 8 stunning examples.

Promise Of Shadows by Justina Ireland

Published March 2014 by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

WHIPLASH How to Survive Our Faster Future by Joi Ito Director MIT Media Lab and  Jeff Howe

Published in 2016 by Grand Central Publishing.

US by David Nicholls

Published in 2014 by Hodder & Stoughton

A Short Film About Disappointment by Joshua Mattson

Published in 2018 by Penguin Press.

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Published in 2017 by Riverhead.

“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” —Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review

“Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” —Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating

The Affairs Of The Falcons by Melissa Rivero

Published in 2019 by Ecco.

My Best Mistake: Epic Fails and Silver Linings by Terry O’Reilly

Published in 2021 by HarperCollins Publishers.

The Age Of Skin by Dubravka Ugresic

First published in 2019 by Open Letter.