Thursday, 2 October 2014

Drafting and planning: investigating typography

My least favourite is cover C as you wouldn't associate this with a typical music magazine. This doesn't seem professional because it appears quite childish - it may be a little too simple for a magazine cover.
However, my most favourite cover is E because it's in capital letters which is a typical convention of cover stories on music magazines. The font is bold and simple - there's a link between the font in the masthead and the font in the cover story. The font entices the reader because of its simplicity and I understand that simplicity is the essence; usually if the fonts are too fancy they're hard to read yet the font on cover E shows a sense of clarity.
I'd rank in order of the most likely used font to less likely: B, F, A and D. This is because fonts B and F are relatively similar as they're quite clear yet not as bold and effective as font E. Although I think the fonts A and D are less likely to be used on a magazine front page because they're lower case and do not show any immediate importance. They just appear to be a little too plain and not as eye-catching as perhaps font E, but more mature and simple than font C. 

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