ghostofamerica book design

Lemons: In an Orchard

Cover of Lemons: In an Orchard, designed by ghostofamerica book design — a gritty oil-painted portrait of a man biting into a lemon, framed in olive-yellow on a dark, lemon-patterned ground

1— No Stupid Hats

Spread showing a loose, crayon-textured line drawing of a lemon hanging from a leafy branch, set in the upper right of an otherwise wide-open white spread
A loose, crayon-textured line drawing of a lemon.
Spread with the same lemon-branch motif rendered in reverse — white linework on a black ground on the left page — facing the chapter title '1— No Stupid Hats' set small in a blunt geometric sans on an otherwise empty white right page
The same lemon in reverse.
Opening spread of the chapter's text, with a tall black slab-serif drop cap 'I' and several lines of matching display capitals giving way to a warmer serif body face, set against generous margins on a mostly empty left page
The text opens on a tall slab-serif drop cap. Three lines of matching display capitals announce the opening to the prose.
Pages 12 and 13, set in a single restrained serif with running heads carrying the book and chapter titles and centered folios at the foot
The body is set in Sitka.
Pages 14 and 15, continuing the chapter in the same serif and grid as the previous spread
Pages 16 and 17, the closing spread of the excerpt, set in the same serif and grid as the rest of the chapter