For the Daredevil cover, I’d up the contrast on that photo to make it look as though it were a pen and ink illustration or a close-up of a halftone newspaper-printed photograph.

Since that the photo is from the Life archives, I decided to leave it as close to its original form as possible. I see what you mean, though, and could probably do a halftone pass if I had a large-enough source file.

Love how you laid out the text on the last one.

“I agree with the praise for the Daredevil design. Kudos. However, the Punisher cover is pretty amateur level stuff. People need to realize that just because Portagol is a ‘stencil’ typeface, it doesn’t mean it’s appropriate for a military look (main offender recently being the Millar/Harris War Heroes). Comic Sans, Papyrus and Portagol are the cringe-inducing type trifecta. Leave the pre-loaded fonts alone and source your type properly.”

Bro . . . don’t be a dick.

The black background, grey midtone and white foreground title treatment is too narrow a contrast range. Might be nice to throw either the title treatment or the skull image to the red end of the spectrum to see what happens.

I played with that and maybe it was just having done the Daredevil and Whiteout designs, but it felt sort of tired immediately. I preferred keeping it sort of minimal and flat and think it’d stand out on the rack just through its contrast with other things. Maybe. I’d hope.

I agree with the praise for the Daredevil design. Kudos. However, the Punisher cover is pretty amateur level stuff. People need to realize that just because Portagol is a ‘stencil’ typeface, it doesn’t mean it’s appropriate for a military look (main offender recently being the Millar/Harris War Heroes). Comic Sans, Papyrus and Portagol are the cringe-inducing type trifecta. Leave the pre-loaded fonts alone and source your type properly.

Thanks for your input. It was the only (of many) Stencil fonts I had that I felt was appropriate, and the letter width (with some tweaking to the spacing) fit my design well. I always considered “Trajan” the other part of the “cringe-inducing type trifecta” anyway.

BTW, do you do design? Do you have a portfolio? I’d love to see your work.

The black background, grey midtone and white foreground title treatment is too narrow a contrast range. Might be nice to throw either the title treatment or the skull image to the red end of the spectrum to see what happens.