Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Outliers

I hesitate a little to post this, as it's not yet released. But the Hachette Web site has posted it, including a hi-res version, so I think we're looking at a final cover.


But this can't be final. Look at the kerning in the title. This can't be final...can it? A reader asks "rs is outlying?" Could be, but "success" seems pretty poorly kerned as well...

Buy this book from Amazon.com

17 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:55 PM

    "rs" is outlying?

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  2. Anonymous12:31 AM

    Ou ch.

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  3. Anonymous11:07 AM

    You could drive a truck through the e and the r.

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  4. Anonymous11:20 AM

    It looks fin e.

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  5. Anonymous2:01 PM

    should've used optical spacing...

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  6. Anonymous3:00 PM

    Perhaps the "rs" is lying out from the "Outlie"?

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  7. my untrained eye can see the outlie rs but not the problem with success. elab?

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  8. Hi damned_cat: the letter spacing gets tighter from left to right. Compare the spacing between S and U to start, and then between S and S at the end.

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  9. Perhaps as you say it's not final...Beautiful cover, though.

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  10. great design. found you via blogs of note

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  11. Aah, thank you for posting this. I was waiting desperatly for the new book of Malcolm. Loved "Blink" and "Tipping Point". Next stop amazon. ;-)

    To me the cover looks fine, but I'm no designer.

    I found your blog through "Remarkable Blogs". It's a really nice idea.

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  12. Anonymous1:23 PM

    Whatis this book about people? Malcom Gladwells books are always great!

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  13. Anonymous10:32 PM

    Are those horizontal rules necessary?

    Your answer was correct if you blurted out, "No, they are not. Remove them right now."

    While I'm at it: I hate the clunkiness of U&lc in Small Caps. And, just to be a total type Nazi, the leading between the author's names is too much -- the type feels like it's all about to drift out to sea.

    But, as my editor friends would say, "aside from that it's perfect!"

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  14. wow. i swear i looked and looked, but i couldn't see any imperfection till you pointed that out. "good eye" is an understatement.

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  15. Note an earlier cover appeared in May.
    http://socialcapital.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/malcolm-gladwells-new-book-the-outliers/

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