Help Me Decide My Official Cover Art

[descendantsofether]

Hello, again Tapas community! I am hereby requesting some assistance in deciding the final design for the cover art of Descendants of Ether. My artists worked very hard on the final designs and we have 4 distinct flavors that I will have to end up choosing from, so I figured getting some input from the very talented community would be a great place to start. Let me know what you think and which one is your favorite! Thank you!

[DualDragons]

I think the top right one is my favourite (design 3)

[Nossumy]

Second one looks great, 3rd one is the most readable

[descendantsofether]

A lot of people seem to be leaning towards Design 3 (myself included ) Thank you for your feedback!

[descendantsofether]

Thank you for the feedback! That's an excellent note about the readability.

[EncryptedWriting]

Top right imo!

I need 20 characters lol

[descendantsofether]

Thank you for your input! The 20 character limit has scuffed me so many times lol.

[darthmongoose]

2 and 4 stand out the best to me, but I'd recommend having a look at them at a smaller size. That text might be a bit small and hard to make out when the cover is on a phone at Tapas display size. Obviously there needs to be some padding, but is it possible to bump the size of the logo up maybe 20%?

[skyfarron]

TR's the best-looking and most readable, even though I like the color gradient on TL. BL looks... bad, at least to me. BR shows why TR is good.

[descendantsofether]

I'll take a look at them across multiple devices and ensure that they look ok (oh the joys of responsive web development). Thanks for the reminder though, and thank you for your input!

[descendantsofether]

The gradient on 1 is choice. Why do you think 3 looks bad, out of curiosity?

[migxmeg]

I'm sort of wondering if @torncloak is referring to design 2 as the one that looks bad (it's a little confusing that they are in an order where design 3 would often be #2 and design 2 would be #3 if that was a grid of options).

Designs 1 & 3 are the easiest to read if I squint a lot - they both look really nice but I think design 3 is the best balance between art and text.

[skyfarron]

edited my post to say topleft/bottomright/etc instead of numbers

[descendantsofether]

It is a little confusing with the image names not matching the positions . I've been reading it from top to bottom, left to right.

Thank you for your input! I also think that TL and TR look the best.

[skyfarron]

darkness sucks up focus in a picture, which is good unless it's against something that's already medium-dark, even if it looks like it has lighter tones at a glance. then it swallows up thin forms like lettering.

[LCT_m_a_d]

I like 1... so don't use that one lol

[Piece_of_paper]

I really like the 1st and 2nd images (the ones labeled design 1 and design 3), the title font on the last 2 doesn’t really fit the vibes that I get from this beautifullll artwork

[Lev404]

Took a while for my eyes to notice a difference lmao, but at least for me I would prefer the art from design 3 with the text of design 1

[Lev404]

But they all look great anyway so tell your artists they are really talented

[faisalhussein394]

I prefer the bottom left, It's just that the black stroke of the title felt real good.