Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Fonts
I decided that to fit the accepted conventions for a heavy rock music publication I would use a fractured, industrial font much like the ones used by Kerrang! or Metal Hammer as my masthead so I tried a few out...
Viper Nora - This was the first font I tried out, and although I liked it and felt it fitted well both in the vision I had for the magazine and within the genre conventions I also felt I could push it slightly further. Despite being slightly worn-looking, the font is still very regular and doesn't stand out out enough for my liking.
Trashco - This font has a great smudged ink effect which is really unique and quite striking, perfect for a masthead. Unfortunately it just isn't quite clear enough to serve the purpose well, the smudges obscuring a couple of the letters just a little too much, however this kind of effect does appeal to me and it may be something I pursue somewhere else in the magazine.
Deviant - As well as coincidentally being the name of my magazine, this font seemed to be the best of both worlds, rough-looking yet clear, distorted but recognisable and the strong, wide script seems appropriate for a magazine dealing with aggresive, heavy music. This is the font I have decided to use for my masthead as I feel it is appropriate to the genre of my magazine and will be appealing to my target audience.
I will try to limit the rest of my magazine to no more than three fonts to avoid it looking messy and unstructured, the main bulk of article text will be using Verdana, a fairly standard font available in most programs. It is hard to explain what appeals to me about this font, it just has a very clean, accesible feel to it and uses appropriate spacing, something many fonts seem desperately to need.
Viper Nora - This was the first font I tried out, and although I liked it and felt it fitted well both in the vision I had for the magazine and within the genre conventions I also felt I could push it slightly further. Despite being slightly worn-looking, the font is still very regular and doesn't stand out out enough for my liking.
Trashco - This font has a great smudged ink effect which is really unique and quite striking, perfect for a masthead. Unfortunately it just isn't quite clear enough to serve the purpose well, the smudges obscuring a couple of the letters just a little too much, however this kind of effect does appeal to me and it may be something I pursue somewhere else in the magazine.
Deviant - As well as coincidentally being the name of my magazine, this font seemed to be the best of both worlds, rough-looking yet clear, distorted but recognisable and the strong, wide script seems appropriate for a magazine dealing with aggresive, heavy music. This is the font I have decided to use for my masthead as I feel it is appropriate to the genre of my magazine and will be appealing to my target audience.
I will try to limit the rest of my magazine to no more than three fonts to avoid it looking messy and unstructured, the main bulk of article text will be using Verdana, a fairly standard font available in most programs. It is hard to explain what appeals to me about this font, it just has a very clean, accesible feel to it and uses appropriate spacing, something many fonts seem desperately to need.
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