Beginner 'Hiraeth'

[Will.B]

Have just been messing around with photoshop trying to learn how to use it and come up with this series of composite images with a cd cover in mind. They are a composite of 4 images I shot in a few places I have been fortunate enough to visit over a number of years.
Wanting to experiment with some font in the project, I was looking for a word that looked good, and fitted in the image and stumbled on a kinda cool Welsh word, 'Hiraeth', meaning;
"a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearnng, the grief for the lost place of your past."
Which i quite liked, anyhow... without further a doo.

Cover





Inlay

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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Very tasteful design and convincing approach, Will!

…and I dig the definition you gave… interesting.

 

[Will.B]

Thanks Kodiak.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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Revisited!

If I may suggest…
The word, on the cover is very visible at the beginning
but seems to be less toward the end,
may be a reversed radiant… or the orange colour?

 

[Will.B]

Hmm,ok. So, to be clear. Not totally sure what you mean but are you suggesting using the colour of the sky reversed for the font? Or something else?
Could be worth a go but i quite like the way it fades almost to same colour as the sky.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

but i quite like the way it fade

Yes, there is definitely some graphic appeal in this solution
but my suggestion concerns only the readability… on a
store shelf, shop window or any form of display.

are you suggesting using the colour of the sky reversed for the font?

Something like that. Fill the font with say a reversed gradient
of appropriate colours.

Again, my suggestion concerns only the readability.