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Fonts and ColourColour and font play a massive role in establishing the bases of genre and target audience and the over all mood of the magazine, when the font and colour doesn’t reflect the magazine it can become confusing and also very misleading to the audience.
HAPPY HAPPYTimes New Roman (Body). This
is one of the most traditional fonts normally associated with News and information magazines. The lines are strict and straight without any curved lines even the letters with bowed edges it still produces a harsh regimented edge.
Curlz MT. This is a more of a casual font the curls continuation off the letters are more related to teen girls who listen to pop music or it appears to be more of a doodle on a note pad than a font that has any importance. However it does suit the word HAPPY more than the other font does, proving that font does make you interpret words in a different way because of how they are written.
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
All of these fonts are cursive and very elegant, this would normally be seen on very formal event such as a wedding or a awards evening, this font wouldn’t suit a Rock magazine nor any others apart from possibly Jazz or Classical but even still the font is very difficult to read when you are not very close to the page.
Handwriting Harlow Solid Italic is more of a font that denotes a rock magazine this is because of the harsh bold lines and how thick each of the letters are. It also makes everything quite straight in a line and all of the letters look stencilled and look the same.
HandwritingGigi is more of a pop handwriting due to the swirls and shaky appearance, it looks casual and almost messy, it very childish or teenager like and defiantly looks like a handwriting of someone.
Display fonts are meant to be Big, Bold and are suppose to stand out as this is what a masthead consists of and maybe the main cover line. This has to reflect the genre of the magazine as this is the first thing that the audience will see, so it has to be perfectly harmonious with the message you want to be sent to your Target audience.
Colour is very important as it can reflect a message and mood, colours next to each other on the colour wheel are called harmonious colours and can come in a lot of shades however using all these will not make it stand out, where as if you use opposite colours (complementary) colours they make things stand out however you have to be careful with the shades as two very bright colour will clash.
POP MUSICWrong choice! There are many reasons why this is bad choice. The red and very murky green/ brown doesn’t compliment each other and makes it look dull. With the masthead of POP MUSIC the colours need to bright with pink or blue or even yellow and not a harsh red and gross brown/green. The font is the other thing that is wrong it is very straight edged and not curly or cursive like a pop music should connote, it is dragging down the normal light heartedness of pop music, with girly popstars and attractive boy bands.
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