Outlawed by Anna North

Outlawed is a feminist western novel written by Anna North and published by Bloomsbury in January 2021. Rachel Willey’s jacket design was selected as LitHub’s Best Book Cover of 2021 (tied with Thomas Colligan’s work for Mona). Jury member Erik Carter comments:

I love how this cover plays with Western tropes—a cowboy hat, handkerchief, and slab serif typography—but then subverts them with a healthy dash of campiness and fun that you rarely see in the genre.

The title appears to be in caps from Egyptian Ornamented. The condensed face with mid-stem spurs was first shown in wood in 1870 and was digitized by mpressInteractive in 2013. I’m not sure about the author’s name. It could be Clarified JNL, a 2020 digitization of a Clarendon Extended – but with squeezed letterforms. The small bits – “A novel” and R.O. Kwon’s blurb – use one of the digitizations of Haas Clarendon.

Art direction by Patti Ratchford.