There are design crimes. There are aesthetic misdemeanors. And then there’s this — a celestial catastrophe so earnestly chaotic it feels like a PowerPoint slide got baptized and raptured mid-sermon.
Let’s start with the obvious. The title, A Further Focus on the Majestic Spectrum of God’s Love, is less a title and more a paragraph. It stretches so long across the cover that it nearly wraps around the spine by sheer force of word count. The text alignment? Centered, stacked, and staggered in such a way that each phrase feels like a separate theological argument yelling over the others. It’s like the fonts were asked to form a choir, but instead they all demanded solos.
Now, let’s discuss the background: a rainbow shooting diagonally across a stock-photo sky so over-saturated it could blind a hummingbird. But wait — the sun. That sunburst. It looks like it wandered off the packaging of a 1997 “Inspirational Mousepad” and decided to radiate its holy glow on this cover like a blessing no one asked for. The lens flare is aggressive. It’s not just shining — it’s testifying.
Speaking of divine intervention, the rainbow itself is applied like a divine highlighter — but not even one that makes sense with the composition. It plows right through the middle of the text, creating more visual noise than spiritual clarity. God may be love, but this rainbow is wrathful.
Typography-wise, we’re clearly dealing with a holy war of font sizes. The title tries to create hierarchy but ends up in typographic purgatory. Serif fonts are used in a range of sizes that feel like someone was formatting this in Microsoft Word while the spirit moved them — sporadically. By the time we get to the author’s name, we’ve passed through multiple levels of kerning confusion and are just relieved it doesn’t rhyme with “papyrus.”
The whole cover reads like a theological weather forecast: “Cloudy with a chance of scripture, expect divine rays, and possible text showers.”
This isn’t just a bad design — it’s a religious experience in what not to do. A Further Focus on the Majestic Spectrum of God’s Love deserves a further focus on the basic principles of graphic design.
Heaven help us.