FONTS

I am going to sample and explore a variety of fonts to see which one would work well in regards to coverlines and subheadings etc. I plan to draw my masthead and later scan it and apply Photoshop work to it to make it a more original font, however still need a style for basic text.

The font above demonstrates Helvetica, which I think would work well especially for the double page spread/interview as it is easy to read and understand. It's simple and is used regularly by other publications.

This example is Century Gothic. I like this font as it's simple and easy to read, although it looks slightly informal, I don't think it would look successful in large quantity on a double page spread or a contents page.

The above example is called Adobe Fan Heiti and I think it's almost a middleground between Century Gothic and Helvetica - it's formal and also informal, but not too much of either. It is likely that I would use this font in my magazine on either the double page spread or contents page.

This is an example of a font that I think would be far too formal for my magazine, due to the audience target age and also genre. It's far more formal than all of the ones above and wouldn't likely be used in a music magazine.

I think this font, Showcard Gothic, is much too informal to use in my magazine, as in large quantity I think it would be quite difficult to read, and also due to how bold it is it would take away the audience's attention from other aspects of the page.

 

I don't want to use a font such as this one (Lucinda Handwriting) because I think a handwritten/calligraphy font would be too informal and distracting, and it may also be very difficult to read. I think a printed font such as the first few I demonstrated would work much better.