Here are samples of different ways contemporary script calligraphy can be integrated into book cover design. Most of these books are ongoing series, in which the hand lettered book title becomes part of the brand.

                                 

Casual, fun brush lettering integrated into the illustration

Monoline pen handwriting for Sophie Kinsella's "Shopaholic" series

 

Brush calligraphy that flows with the curves of the illustration          

                                    

Script as illustration, a visual pun

 

Contemporary brush script designed to play off of a font

                       

A long title treated as a text shape for Laurel House

Elegant contemporary pen calligraphy in two different styles