Orbit Books Shares Details About 2009 Fantasy Cover Art Trends

Posted on August 21, 2010

Orbit Books has been running a series of fascinating infographics that reveal fantasy novel cover art trends for 2009. Orbit's Trends in Fantasy Cover Art chart shows that swords, glowy magic and dragons were the most popular fantasy cover art elements in 2009.

Orbit Books also has information and infographics about heroines in urbany fantasy, the most popular color choices for dragons (green at 35%) and a word cloud showing word trends in fantasy titles in 2009. These charts are highly entertaining.

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