Cannon is Lee Lai’s follow up to the Lamda Award winning graphic novel Stone Fruit. The title and author’s name on both the cover and the spine are typeset in Velzyland. On the cover, the wavy letterforms of Velzyland pair nicely with the rhythmic bird feather motif. And the angled baseline on the cover works especially well with Velzyland’s extreme slant of 25 degrees. On the spine, “CANNON” is stacked vertically alternating from red to black, further echoing Velzyland’s wavy rhythmic effect, and it’s sandwiched between the author’s name and the publisher name, D+Q, shorthand for Drawn & Quarterly. All of the type appears to be hand-rendered, as evidenced by the organic edge details which are not in the typeface, though the spacing is consistent with the typeface.
The poster for the tour with Tom Gauld and Mimi Pond uses Noto Sans.
