Fonts

To find out which fonts I wanted to use for all parts of my magazine i went on the website http://www.dafont.com/. This website had a range of different fonts allowing me to chose several different possibilities, ask a group of people - all within my target audience - which font they liked best and why.
For the contents page I chose to use a basic San serif font. I decided to pick three fonts and ask people - who were in the main target audience for my magazine - which one they liked best. The three fonts i chose were: Old Sans Black, Yiggivoo and SF New Republic. I asked 8 different people and 6 of them chose Old Sans Black, saying they liked how simple and clear it was. It was also quite bold lettering making it stand out. The other two fonts were less formal and seemed to look more like a cartoon style of writing, not something you would use for a magazine contents page. The font Old Sans Black is also very similar to the font used in Q Magazines contents page, which suggests that it is a popular font among the readers of this type of music magazine. It is bold, plain and stands out. I think this will appeal to my target audience because older people generally aren't as interested in fancy writing or comic style writing. After listening to the people I asked about the fonts they said their preferred a plain font that clearly tells them what the page is about and isn't hard to read.

This is the font I will be using for my contents page, 'Old Sans Black'. However, for my contents page I will use capital letters.

The name of my magazine is 'Shockwave' so for the front cover of the magazine I decide to use a font that was edgy and spiky to match the word 'shock'. The three fonts I chose as possibilities were: Batman Forever, Planet Kosmos and Starcraft. The most popular of these three fonts was Batman Forever because it was interesting to look at, the look of the font matched to the word 'shock' and it was clearer to read than the other two as it stood out with large bold letters. To represent the letter 'O' in Shockwave I have decided to draw a vinyl record so I think it would be better if the rest of the letters looked different so it is clear that the 'O' is a vinyl not a basic letter.

This is the 'Batman Forever' font that I will be using for the title of my magazine on the front cover.

These are the two fonts that I decided not to use. 'Planet Kosmos' and 'Star Craft'

My double page spread will have a large title that is spread across the top of both pages.

For the main body of text I will use a basic serif font such as 'Apple' because it is plain and simple, meaning the font will not distract the reader form what is written.

This is the 'Apple' font I plan to use for my double page article