Maybe We’ll Make It by Margo Price
Jacket design for Margo Price’s Maybe We’ll Make It, published by University of Texas Press.
The book jacket features the typeface Job Clarendon, created by David Jonathan Ross with direction by Bethany Heck. I wanted a strong display typeface that balanced with the stunning cover photograph by Nadine Brach, while keeping in mind this was a memoir by a well-known, Nashville-based country musician. A slab serif in this genre could steer cliché fast, but Job Clarendon gave me the hefty, elegant presence I was looking for. The curved terminals in the lowercase r, a, and y gave the design some extra softness, balancing out the sharp angles of the uppercase M’s and W, as well as the darker color palette.
The blurb is set in Adobe Caslon and Sweet Sans.
Cover design by Amanda Weiss, with art direction by Derek George.
