{"id":"5914","date":"2021-03-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T23:46:40","slug":"which-one-won-romance-book-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Which One Won? A romance book cover, up close and personal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;d think that if you slapped two canoodling people on a romance book cover, your readers would snatch it up, end of story. Turns out making subtle changes to an already attractive cover can pique your readers&#8217; interest even more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what one author discovered in a split test of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/books\/book-covers\/which-book-cover-do-you-like-the-best-UC17343E\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">two romance book covers on PickFu<\/a> with a target audience of 100 female fiction readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Option A features a mint green accent color, while Option B keeps it all white with the same image of the couple, only closer up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you guess which one won?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-a-womens-fiction-677x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Which One Won: romance book cover\" data-id=\"5917\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-a-womens-fiction.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5917\" class=\"wp-image-5917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-a-womens-fiction-677x1024.jpeg 677w, https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-a-womens-fiction-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-a-womens-fiction-768x1162.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-a-womens-fiction.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-b-womens-fiction-677x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Which One Won: romance book cover\" data-id=\"5916\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-b-womens-fiction.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5916\" class=\"wp-image-5916 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-b-womens-fiction-677x1024.jpeg 677w, https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-b-womens-fiction-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-b-womens-fiction-768x1162.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/option-b-womens-fiction.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:200px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And the winner is&#8230;Option B, with 58 out of 100 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a score of 58 to Option A&#8217;s 42, the margin wasn&#8217;t huge, but it was <a href=\"https:\/\/help.pickfu.com\/en\/articles\/4733975-how-are-the-scores-calculated\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"statistically significant (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">statistically significant<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s find out why readers chose Option B.  <\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-right-romantic-font\">The right romantic font<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Respondents didn&#8217;t care for the mint green font in Option A&#8217;s title. One person noted that the green font washed out the white font. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Option A&#8217;s weird font contrast makes it look really cheap,&#8221; another respondent said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others liked Option B&#8217;s more &#8220;feminine&#8221; script, saying it fit the romantic theme better than the block letters on Option A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respondents also liked how the author&#8217;s name was positioned at the top of the cover on Option B, saying it looked more professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I prefer the title to be separate from the author so everything is more clear and easier to read,&#8221; one person wrote. <\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"an-intimate-image\">An intimate image<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no other way to put this: readers prefer a close-up view of the steamy cover image.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s more of what respondents said about Option B:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&#8220;For a romance novel, the close-up of the couple in Option B is fitting. I think of romance, relationships, closeness.&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;The up-close image is more appealing and more intimate.&#8221;\u00a0<\/li><li>&#8220;Image B looks more typical of a modern romance novel for the couple to be zoomed in.&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;Being closer to the couple in the image makes the emotions in it more immediate.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A romance book cover that evokes strong emotions in readers will make them want to buy it and read it. Designing it with a fancy font \u2014 and, of course, a close view of your star couple \u2014 can only help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have a book cover to <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/guide-to-split-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">split test<\/a> on PickFu? <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/pickfu.com\/ask\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Create a poll<\/a> and get results back in as little as 15 minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that if you slapped two canoodling people on a romance book cover, your readers would snatch it up, end of story. Turns out making subtle changes to an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":""},"author":"9","featured_media":"5919","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":"","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":"","_editorskit_reading_time":"0","_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":"","_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":["21","15"],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Which One Won? Romance book cover design, up close - The PickFu blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There&#039;s more to a well-designed romance book cover than an image of a canoodling couple (though that helps!). Read more in this week&#039;s WOW.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Which One Won? Romance book cover design, up close - The PickFu blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#039;s more to a well-designed romance book cover than an image of a canoodling couple (though that helps!). Read more in this week&#039;s WOW.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The PickFu blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pickfu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000373763478\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-03T15:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-02-05T23:46:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WOW-romance-close-up.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Laura Ojeda Melchor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@lauraomelchor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@pickfu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Laura Ojeda Melchor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Laura Ojeda Melchor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#\/schema\/person\/808db59d4354f39626f5e53815e19b48\"},\"headline\":\"Which One Won? A romance book cover, up close and personal\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-03T15:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-05T23:46:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/\"},\"wordCount\":413,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"#WhichOneWon\",\"Publishing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/\",\"name\":\"Which One Won? Romance book cover design, up close - The PickFu blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-03T15:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-05T23:46:40+00:00\",\"description\":\"There's more to a well-designed romance book cover than an image of a canoodling couple (though that helps!). Read more in this week's WOW.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Which One Won? A romance book cover, up close and personal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/\",\"name\":\"The PickFu blog\",\"description\":\"How-to guides, customer success stories, and news about PickFu\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"PickFu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/logo-large-transparent-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/logo-large-transparent-1.png\",\"width\":1800,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"PickFu\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pickfu\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pickfu\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#\/schema\/person\/808db59d4354f39626f5e53815e19b48\",\"name\":\"Laura Ojeda Melchor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LauraOjedaMelchor-shadow-mountain-1jpg-96x96.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LauraOjedaMelchor-shadow-mountain-1jpg-96x96.jpeg\",\"caption\":\"Laura Ojeda Melchor\"},\"description\":\"Laura Ojeda Melchor (she\/her) is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Parents.com, Mom.com, Gardener\u2019s Path, and of course, PickFu. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her debut middle-grade novel, Missing Okalee, was published in the fall of 2021 by Shadow Mountain Publishing.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/lauraojedamelchor.com\/\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000373763478\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lauraojedamelchor\/?hl=en\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lauraojedamelchor\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauraomelchor\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/author\/lauramelchor\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Which One Won? Romance book cover design, up close - The PickFu blog","description":"There's more to a well-designed romance book cover than an image of a canoodling couple (though that helps!). Read more in this week's WOW.","robots":"Array","canonical":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Which One Won? Romance book cover design, up close - The PickFu blog","og_description":"There's more to a well-designed romance book cover than an image of a canoodling couple (though that helps!). Read more in this week's WOW.","og_url":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/which-one-won-romance-book-cover\/","og_site_name":"The PickFu blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pickfu","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000373763478","article_published_time":"2021-03-03T15:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-02-05T23:46:40+00:00","og_image":"Array","author":"Laura Ojeda Melchor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@lauraomelchor","twitter_site":"@pickfu","twitter_misc":"Array","schema":"Array"},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Laura Ojeda Melchor","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/author\/lauramelchor\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WOW-romance-close-up-470x235.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":"Array"},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 3, 2021","modified":"Updated on February 5, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 3, 2021 7:00 am","modified":"Updated on February 5, 2021 3:46 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}