Before starting making the magazine we have to research some fonts for the masthead. I still don't now what the name of my magazine will be as the poll on names is still on and people are still voting, so I did some screenshots of the fonts I liked the most and their names. I want my magazine to be quite modern so I was looking for simple serif or sans-serif fronts with straight or a little bit more round lines, very readable and quite fat so they will still stand out even if they are overlaid by a main picture.
This one is called "Kenzo" and it is actually the same kind of font which the famous brand uses for labels or signs on clothes. It is tall and bold sans-serif font and it will look effective for a short masthead and I see it either in black or neon colours.
This one is called "Couture" and is very round and bold and I would probably use it for the contents page rather than cover.
This one is called "Revolution" and as the name suggests I would use it for a Rock or very modern and Pop-art magazine (which would publish something in style of the latest Lady Gaga's album "ARTPOP"). Even though it is bold and vowels have round shapes, consonants have sharp edges and angles and this adds some aggression to the font.
This font seems quite artistic and original to me. The letters are tall but the top half of them is bigger than the bottom and I find it interesting. Like in the image, this font looks very nice when applied to two or more words. This type of font is quite often used on posters
such as this one. I like the idea of using this font in one colour and shadow it in another.
This is personally my favourite font of all that I've chosen. It reminds me of newspapers so suggests a quite serious content of the magazine and older audience (18-30 years-olds). It is a serif font and what interested me in it is that it has very thin lines and serifs comparing to the main bodies of the letters. It is also a little bit elegant and will look good in simple colours, such as black white or dark blue and all their shades.
All of my fonts are similar to each other because I have some kind of vision of what I want to see on the pages of my magazine. I want the fonts to be quite bold and eye-catching. I like these fonts and I think in the end I'll use two of them - one for the cover and one for the contents.
