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.
These are other fonts I have decided to choose for my contents page and double page spread headlines. I browsed alot over different font websites but I decided to use http://www.dafont.com/, this is becasue 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 sheme I am using which is Red and Black.
These fonts are more of the choices for main heding/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 ade it blend in with my colour scheme of Navy, White, Red, Blue, Yellow and Pink. I fell it gives it an edgier image with blocks that are different to the rest. I used "Bohemian Typewriter" for my the contents page main information title"The Bad Romance?". I also used this font for page numbers and used the same idea of copying and pasting in the image rather than typing to make it look like it is meant to bwe there and not a fault with me ort the computer. I feel it worked well though! I used the font "impact" as the navigators on the contents page of heading for each section of the magazine and what page number they are on, in the sriking colour yellow so that they would stand out! This was onto a Navy background so that the reader could see it well. I have used the same idea of boxes around my navigaors like with the mast head and the main body information. Again, this was to blend in the theme of boxes and an edgier feel. I also used "~Impact" on the front cover of my magazine as the caption of one of the main sells images. Again, this was in yellow with a page number. I feel that this font is attractive and appealing to my target audience with an edge and something solid. Similarly to NME's and Kerrang's Block writing which shows a sturdy FOnt for their masthead's, one being faded and roicky 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 fornt cover I also used 3 fonts that were hard to find whilst editing my front cover. I had to recover al of them and fix links I chose MTF Base Line and After Shok fonts both from http://www.dafont.com/ 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 distroted, similarly to KERRANG! It gave an edy, rock feel to the front cover mix and matched with the party like image.
For my Contents page, again I used Impact for the main navigators like headlines for the contents and for the page number. I used the noise font I used for my masthead again by placing it there and used Corbel for the body text writing.
For my double page spread, on the side with the picture, to create a sense of formailty I used impact again, the same "THE NOISE!" banner as before, corbel for the web address and etails of downloads, and ERAS medium itc for the quotes, and the tagline of the band. I used bohemian typewriter at the bottom of each page as navigators for the page numbers. Underneath the noise! banner I used impact font for part of the article "awards coverage"in yellow as to be seen as a part of the navigator for the reader to know who and what they are reading. For my main article on the double page spread , the main body text was written in Eras medium itc. I like this font as it gave a romantic tone to my text and relfects I feel what the artist is about. The head line ASSASIN was written in Broadway. I htink this reflects the band's success in a short amount of time and the 'saviours' of music relfects this in my text.
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.
