5.Fonts

I am thinking about using both serif and sans serif fonts for my front cover/contents and double page spread. this won't be used on the main body text for the article as sometimes this can be hard to read. thinking about my ideal audience also, this will seem to informal if I used it everywhere. I want to use some serif fonts i want to give it a retro feel like an iconic music magazine such as Rolling Stone. I have thought about colour and for the fonts i will be using mainly black/red/navy. The other colours, red and yellow will be used for fonts for the masthead,heading and titles. It will appeal to my target audience as I want it to attract a wide spread audience that like music influenced by iconic bands such as the Beatles which is where the retro and old fashioned vintage font come into it. I want some in bold for the Drop cap and mastheads etc. The text body I feel would be better as standard as then it is still easy to read. Quotes and some of the interview will be put in italics as people can identify them as quotes. I haven't decided a particular specific font yet as I haven't finished browsing and experimenting. I know I want my masthead to be a font from a website that I can download onto a computer and have one that stands out. It will be in either yellow and black, or black and red. I feel these are attractive and appealing coloured fonts for my target audience as it doesn't give it a specific gender to be aimed at which was what I was wanting.

These three fonts are for my main masthead. I like all three but I think I will choose the first one it is written like a glow stick onto a dark background and I feel this would relate to my target audience as I want it to appeal to people who got to events like Global Gathering and Reading festivals etc.

This is the name of the artist. I will either use this font or Bohemian typewriter, depending on which picture I choose for my double page spread and what matches it. (Amsterdam Graffiti http://www.dafont.com/)






These are other fonts I have decided to choose for my contents page and double page spread headlines. I browsed a lot over different font websites but I decided to use http://www.dafont.com/, this is because it had all sorts of different styles of fonts that can create lots of different moods to the magazine. The two out of these samples I like best were 'GF ORDNER' and 'THE NOISE' which is a font I chose for my front cover masthead, The noise is the name of the magazine. I edited the colours form the original to make it the colour scheme I am using which is Red and Black.

These fonts are more of the choices for main heading/subheadings/ taglines on my 4 pages. I have picked a selection of serif and sans serif fonts to choose from. I will pick one that best suits the images and that compliments it. As I couldn't get my fonts to be placed in the Indesign Fonts, I copied and pasted them into paint and cropped them down to be fitted with space I made in Indesign. I have made it blend in with my colour scheme of Black, White, Grey and Yellow. I feel it gives it an edgier image with blocks that are different to the rest. I used "Bohemian Typewriter" for the page numbers on my double page spread. This was used to create different effects with the se of fonts so that that navigator stand out to the reader. I feel it worked well though! I used the font "impact" (in yellow so that page numbers would stand out) as the navigators on the contents page of and the heading for each section of the magazine was in Franklin Gothic Heavy. This was placed onto a grey background so that the reader could see it well and the information writing the same font (FGH) but in white to divide each part. I have used the same idea of boxes around my navigators like with the mast head and the main body information. Again, this was to blend in the theme of boxes and an edgier feel. Similarly to NME's and Kerrang's Block writing which shows a sturdy Font for their masthead's, one being faded and rocky and the other being Bold and simple but effective. I feel that some of the fonts I found reflected Fonts used that I had seen in NME and Kerrang which a hard and solid or serif to show a retro feel. Contrasting this to my evaluation of SMASH HITS! magazine which is girly, pop like and fun attracting a tweenie audience. NOT appealing to mine! On my font cover I also used a font that were hard to find whilst editing my front cover. I had to recover all of them and fix links I chose and ChromosomLight from http://www.fontstock.net/ . I used these font on my front cover as I felt they matched the theme of my magazine and looked distorted, similarly to KERRANG! It gave an edgy, rock feel to the front cover mix and matched with the party like image.

The three colours used on the front cover blends in and matches the theme of the issue of the magazine which rund throughout.

3 main fonts are used "Rockwell" ,"Frankiln Gothic Heavy" and "Impact". The others I used were pictures (JPEGS) that I pasted in as they were hard to format into the finished piece. I used these fonts as they were a mixture of serif and sans serif fonts to which will appeal to the audience as some are clear to read and other make it seem more attractive. NME use on basic font as seen on their front covers however, depending on the artist that features in that issue, the may change it, like with Lily Allen's issue.

These fonts are used for page numbers and strap lines. They are both simialr and feature at the bottom of the page so there is a running theme throughout.

I used these as main heading and to draw attention to the main navigators and main sells.

I used drop caps in the insert box of the contents page as many magazines use these to start an article.

I am happy with the fonts I used however disappoint that some of them I wanted to use didn't save, so I had to save them as JPGs.