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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Cover Colors

Does anyone else have weird associations with colors on book covers?

For example, I see a purple cover and most of the time automatically go "OOOOOH what a pretty/nice/cute cover to hold a great book."

To prove my point:








































Then again, there are purple covers like this:


Not hideous, but a DOLL? Really? If there's one thing I don't like about the Pretty Little Liars series it's the covers.

If I see a pink cover, I usually think "That's either a girly, cute, or light book."



























Then again, there's books like this:

A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl is definitely not a girly, light, or cute book. It's quite good though.

I see a mostly black cover and think "That's an interesting/pretty/nice cover. There's a really good chance that book is either really intense, great, or both."































But then again:

What have we learned today, children? 1) Laziness results in bad posts. 2) Khy likes looking at covers too much. 3) Khy should not judge books by their colors.

19 comments:

Jen said...

Looking for Alaska <3

I think pink = chick lit
also Vampire books always have black backgrounds with something either red or really pale in the foreground!

Yan said...

Khy (DANI!) is weird :D

Alea said...

Haha!

celi.a said...

Jen, I think you are right! I mean, look at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Perfect example.

Mik said...

Haha Khy! I love how you just dissed Twilight through its cover. ;] I tend to go for blue covers and black covers. I'm like you with looking at covers; I can spend a long time just staring at the displays at Barnes & Noble.

Mik @ I Am Nonfiction

Diana Dang said...

Haha, fun post. And yes, Twilight....

austenfan said...

Should not judge books by their colors! LOL.

Rebecca said...

I've never really looked at colours of books before except I think I try toavoid books with pink covers because I imagine them all to be really girly and the pink covered books I have read were actually really good books.

L. Diane Wolfe said...

I'm a visual person, so I'm enjoying your cover discussions!
I agree - pink is girly & prissy. Black always screams horror to me.
Guess I like the dark blues and reds best...

L. Diane Wolfe
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Sab H. said...

It does make sense.. haha

Thao said...

^ I agree. Very interesting.

Bookworm said...

Interesting post. I totally agree! Purple can mean anything, but black is definitely darker/possibly paranormal, and pink is almost always light and fluffy, girly and cute!

Hillary said...

Green covers are my favorites.

La Coccinelle said...

Interesting... I notice I tend to be drawn to dark covers. That's probably why I got sucked into reading the Twilight series!

Pink definitely does scream "girly book!" to me... but it's usually that one particular shade of pink. The one that's associated with Barbie and almost borders on fuchsia. I think I'd steer clear of books with covers that colour; to me, that pink implies fluff and materialism.

*Heather* said...

I like this post. When you're bored/lazy, you post about randomly interesting stuff. I like the black especially, because it does usually signify an intense, great read. But Twilight does not fall into either category.

Jen said...

Actually Twilight has a pretty cover, its just unfortunate it has Edward.

Janssen said...

I love book covers. What a fun post!

Laina said...

Blue is one of my colours (Say, Eyes Like Stars), mostly because I love blue. I also love black and white covers, like Hush Hush. (*drools*)

Karen Kincy said...

I wonder what color OTHER's cover will be... I'm hoping blue or black for the background...