Lydia Platts

Masthead Designs

The name/ masthead for my magazine will be Vibes, I have chosen this name as it is relevant to the genre of my magazine as it is a music magazine. I have also chosen Vibes to be the name of my magazine because it sounds very current and as the young generation is my target audience, being current is relevant and appeals to this generation. Now I have decided the name of my magazine I now need to choose a specific font type that is appropriate to the style of my magazine. To find a font I have used the website www.dafont.com .

The first font I sampled was M12 Match Biker, the reasons for me choosing this font was that it stood out and caught my eye. However once I sampled it I felt that it wasn’t appropriate for my style of magazine as to me it looks quite quirky and techno and this is not appropriate for an R’N’B magazine so I continued to search for a font.

This is the second font I decided to sample, the font name is Mabella. At first I really liked this font as it was formal, however I then realised that this wasn’t appropriate to my magazine because I want to appeal to younger generations therefore an informal style would be more appropriate.

For the next font style I decided to go down the music route and see if there were any fonts that related to music and I found this one called Distracted Musician. Although this was appropriate to the theme of the magazine, the font is just not suitable to be used as a masthead as it could be seen as childish, and this is not what I want.

Lydia Platts

As I wanted to find a formal font for my magazine I decided to sample the font Fabada Regular. The reasons for my wanting a formal font is because my target audience is the younger generation and informal font would not be appropriate. Although this font is formal I do not believe that it is appropriate for a masthead because the font is too thin and wouldn’t stand out, which isn’t what you want for a masthead, you want it to be big and bold so it stands out.

VIBESLooking again at formal fonts I sample the font called Haettenschweiler, I sampled this font as it was formal as well as big and bold. I found that out of all the sample fonts I did that this result was most

successful therefore I will be using it within my magazine.