The designer for this book cover was Isaac Tobin, retrieved from bookcoverarchive.com.

The cover designed by Isaac Tobin for the novel Spring, Heat, Rains  provides a great arrangement of colors, on what appear to be decorative pillows. If looked at individually, they each seem to hold a different pattern, but as a whole they create a harmonious balance. All the colors used are in high saturation. The main color used is magenta, and it works to unify the entire cover of the novel. The other colors, that is green, blue, orange, yellow, red, black, and white interact with the magenta to create diversity within the design.

The interaction of color is nicely arrayed in this cover. Many blue hues are used with the magenta to create the patterns. In the one on the left, the value of both seems to be the same, but the blue is higher in intensity. This makes the blue diminish the magenta. The pillow in the upper right-hand corner has the opposite effect. The blue is a darker shade than the magenta, and thus the magenta pops out more in the pattern, while the blue recedes as negative space. This use of lighter and darker hues creates the effects of optical mixing. With the different colors put against the magenta, it makes it look like it’s in a different hue or value, but this is not the case. It’s the exact same color, but looks shaded, tinted, saturated or desaturated, depending on the context it’s surrounded by.

The title of the book resides in a bright yellow octagon, intensified by the magenta. The cover’s color relationships are both analogous and complementary. The blue and magenta, black and white are complementary colors, while the red, magenta, orange and yellow are analogous colors. There are primary colors on the green pillow, with yellow, red, and blue figures, while the green background is a tertiary color. Overall, the dominant use of magenta in accordance with the other colors creates a very harmonious cover for the novel.