BOOK COVER EXPERIMENTATIONS

Boy 21 is a book written by Matthew Quick. It is a story about two boys, basketball, stars and number 21. The final year of high school bring together two completely different boys and gives them an opportunity to create something new – friendship. Finley lives with his dad and disabled grandfather in a town of drugs, violence and racially charged rivalries - Bellmont. All he thinks about is to get out of there with his girlfriend, Erin. Until then the only thing he can do is to put his number 21 on and pretend everything is okay. Russ – teen basketball star - moved to the neighborhood after a tragedy turned his life upside down and made him not want to pick up a basketball again. He cut off from everyone else, and gave himself a new name – Boy 21 – taken from his former jersey number.

Main Themes:• Friendship• Choices• Dreams• Family• Loss• Love

This is a decorative type of font.The letter don’t have any extra flicks or lines at the ends and thickness of the line changes a little through the text. The decorative parts of this font are the starts hat are around and inside the letters. I think that makes the font look more interesting as the letters are written in quite simple, handwritten style. The stars link to Rusd who pretends to not be a human and also to other events in the book. The letters are not placed on a base line, there is no mean line or cap line either, some are placed higher some lower. The messy arrangement of the letters relates to messy lives of the main characters. The letters don’t go outside of ascent or descent line, what means they are kind of closed in a limited space what links to the town where the characters from Boy 21 are stuck.

This is a decorative type of font.It also looks handwritten.The decorative parts of the font are the stars added at the ends of the strokes like in serif fonts. The letters are written in a simple style but the stars make them more fancy and unique. The stars link to some of the events in the book and to one of the main characters – Russ. The letters have different sizes but all lines have the same thickness. All the letters are placed on the baseline what relates to the town where the characters from Boy 21 live, they all start from the same place. There is no mean line as all the letters are in capitals and there is no cap line either as some letters are taller than others. It could relate to how different are lives of the main characters even though the live in the same place.

This font is a handwritten, decorative font. It looks like it has been drawn with ink that leaked on the paper and it makes the letters very blurry and hard to read however it gives a really interesting, mysterious effect. All the letters have thick lines but the thickness is different depending on the letter. I chose it because I like how it links to how some of the things in the book got out of anyone's control. The scary, mysterious look relates to the very unique character of Russel who tells everyone he is an alien. I think this kind of font could also be used for some sci-fi book about aliens what could give the audience different idea and could catch their idea, especially when combined with short title that doesn’t tell much about the book.