Book Titles and Text Placement

While perusing around The Raven Book Store on 7th street right off of Mass. I was looking at a whole variety of different books, text, and placement of the text. Although not all of the books that I picked up were very aesthetically pleasing, they were still interestingly layer out which gave me a lot of ideas on how text reads as a viewer. I started to notice which things I read first, and which text was meant to be read first not only by the size and weight of the type but by the placement and where it led my eye. For example on the little matchbox books below, I know that I read "The Raven" first because it is the largest type and your eye is drawn there first. Then below it, in smaller type it tells you what "The Raven" is. The Covers that I didn't particularly respond to were the covers that relied only on the image and put all of the text on one side with one size font because it did not catch my eye and all I really read was the illustration rather than catching what the title was, the author, or any other information. 

I also found that the type of font that you use can make a huge difference on how a viewer reads the title. I particularly liked the more simple and clean fonts the best because it read well and it was clear. I also found that the titles that moved left to right and moved your eye across the page were successful as well, and the titles that just had all the text in the middle were clear, however, were not aesthetically pleasing or interesting.I think looking at this handful of different covers and opening text really helped me get a variety of ideas on how I would read a title, and how I would read the text depending on how it is placed on the cover.