Here’s the cover rough for SSH Mastery, by my pet artist the highly talented Bradley K McDevitt. If you see anything wrong with it, please say so now.
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Buy books. Orcish word-beast wants food.
Here’s the cover rough for SSH Mastery, by my pet artist the highly talented Bradley K McDevitt. If you see anything wrong with it, please say so now.
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Some minor niggles:
* OpenSSH should be one word.
* I’d make ‘by’ in a slightly smaller typeface.
* I’d put the other book titles in a slightly different typeface or otherwise differentiate them.
* I’d let the SSH Mastery title stand by itself, without separating it with a colon.
Ah, also there should probably be a space between “W.” and “Lucas”.
SERIAL COMMA.
or not.
also, I don’t believe “critically-acclaimed” is hyphenated, since “critically” ends in ly.
“Tilted Windmill”? Isn’t that a knight?
And maybe “Secure Tunnels”?
I keep thinking how your PGP book was mistitled, but I guess the audience is different too.
I think this cover isn’t as good as Absolute series covers.
Frankly this is horrible.
i agree it’s horrible,
don’t use a photo, you can do a “Cover Design Contests and Competitions”
Hi there. I’m putting in my 2 cents for what it’s worth. I really like the artwork, a whole bunch in fact, just not the font. I like the size of the font just not the font itself. It looks self-published to me. Not that self-publishing is bad, not at all. It just LOOKS self-published. Hope that helps.
I’m afraid I have to agree with the previous posters, it is horrible and not in the same class as the No Starch covers.
On a more constructive note maybe best to loose the photo and follow Royce’s typography suggestions. The Pufferfish is generally associated with you know what and not SSH; for me this sends a confusing message.
Well, fizzing pufferfish *is* associated just right. But I don’t like the font, colors and the photo either. “Pseudoitalics” are almost never a good idea. But I do like the Don Quixote logo.
> Well, fizzing pufferfish *is* associated just right.
My mistake, so it is. I wasn’t aware that the pufferfish is also used by OpenSSH and I immediately though of OpenBSD when I saw it.
One question.. Why you switched from No Starch?
Tessio,
I haven’t switched. This is an experiment.
Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Ed. will come out through NSP.