Friday, January 13, 2006

Color of the cover

The book is binded with hard back cover and plasticized full color over-cover.
The choice of the color for the cover of the Italian edition has been easy: green is my preferred color, so its color is dark green.
Some discussion has been neded to reach a decision about the colors of the French and English editions. At the end, the logical (?) choice has been dark blue for the French one and red for English one.
Now, a familiy discussion is running about the color of the cover for the German edition. Preference is going to a saturated dark yellow, but then what about the Japanese edition? Or gray for German and yellow for Japanese? Or white for Japanese? Still plenty of time for the final decision.
For sure, at the end nobody will be able to confuse the varius editions of the book even if on the same shelf without the over-cover.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

German edition should be black (because of the flag).
I wouldn't choose white or yellow for Japan as white is the color of the deads while yellow is the colour of the imperial family.

Errr... when you talk about editions you mean "translations": they are all the first edition, right?

Vittorio Frangilli said...

Yellow is also in the German Flag, and the idea of grey came from a "lighter" black...
White should be appropriate for Japan... not really realted to the deads.

Editions are editions, not translations, only. There are some few small differences among the various versions, mainly in chapter 7.3.