This collection of book covers features black, white and a single colour. Further down, let’s take a look at the wide range of covers utilising only black and white.
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![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/when-brooklyn-was-queer-by-hugh-ryan-book-cover-desaturated.jpg)
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![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/by-the-ghost-light-wars-memory-and-families-rh-thomson.jpg)
![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/pelosi-book.jpg)
![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/penguin-book-of-feminist-writing-design-olga-kominek.jpg)
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![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/twelve-lives-of-alfred-hitchcock-design-jason-ramirez.jpg)
![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/look-for-me-and-ill-be-gone-design-dave-litman.jpg)
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![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/offended-sensibilities-design-emily-mahon.jpg)
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![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running-1.jpg)
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![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/the-girl-in-red-christina-henry.jpg)
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![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-internet-con-cory-doctorow.jpg)
![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fvck.jpg)
![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/this-is-where-we-live.jpg)
![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/the-emergency-book.jpg)
![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/THROWN-x-standard-width-800px.jpg)
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![](https://www.slaphappylarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/orwells-roses-rebecca-solnit-floral-book-cover.jpg)
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DESATURATED
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DESATURATED WITH A SINGLE ACCENT COLOUR
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The book in the header was created for practice purposes only and doesn’t exist. I made use of an advertisement from a retro magazine. The man originally asked, “Sure I want to fight communism, but how?” I used fonts called Quirky Sunflower and Schabo (one of my favourite free fonts).