Are you kidding me? The lines are Salo serve a very specific purpose. They're tally marks. They count to 120. The movie's subtitle is The 120 Days of Sodom. As far as lines separating, say, article phrases and the like, that's not problem at all. It's been done for probably centuries by now and is just a nice little aesthetic break. But what isn't done, and what doesn't look good, is splitting up an adjective and its noun arbitrarily. It looks sloppy, especially since the rest of the title, and indeed the rest of the text on the cover is centered. It looks extremely unbalanced.so lightly here wrote:Gosh, with the cover being so pristine and with so much complaining about (perhaps) not being able to read it, it seems that the fine lines add just a little more interest to the cover. Why (in the "Coney Island" book cover) is the line broken with the words "of the" between "Island" and "Mind" or the snowflakes before and after the author's first name? Why the lines on the spine of "Salo" and "or"? Cuz they add a bit of interest? I don't know, but I wouldn't worry my little head about it too awfully much when the overall design comes of so smoothly.
As for the design coming off, uh, "smoothly," well, I guess I'll just have to take your word for it. Or worry my little head about it some more. Or something.
