MASTHEAD AND FONT

DECISIONS

MASTHEAD OPTIONS

For my masthead, I decided on something simple yet bold therefore I decided to

create five options as this would in future give me enough range to choose from. To choose one of these five, I first referred back to official R&B magazines such as Vibe and Billboard to see what features their mastheads had in common. I found

that their mastheads were sleek and had a more ‘modern’ look. This narrowed my

option down to 1,4 and 5. Afterwards, to choose form these three I tested each out on my cover to see which I felt would fit

best with the genre and style of my magazine.

Although, while testing my fonts I realised a flaw which I could have encountered but

luckily did not. This flaw was that if I chose fonts 2 or 3 my masthead would have had to be bigger a these fonts are

slimmer and the masthead on my magazine must fill in the space form left to right on my cover as this is what I gained

from my magazine genre research and following my flatplan. This flaw made me realise that I should think of these details in advance and I will encounter these for

the planning of my contents page and double page spread.

FEATURES FONTS

These images are features from my magazine cover

which two share the same font but one does not. I

decided to make the text/feature in the graphic of a circle different form the other features as this is what all official music

magazines usually follow. The reason for this is

because this feature is created to stand out and

catch the audiences attention to convince them into buying the magazine

which is why most features in graphics on the covers

are incentives.

I decided to make the features white as this colour is included in my artists

costume and contrasts well against my dark grey background.

I later realise that these options weren't the best for the potential of magazine

cover which I will expand on in my future posts.

OTHER FONTS ON MY COVER

This image includes the other font which I used on my cover. I later come to realise that I should include one more fonts on my cover as if I include one more font, this will be the same amount of fonts which R&B magazines used on their

covers (three fonts). I also later realise that the pullquote “never a failure, always a lesson” should be a different font to the artists’ name “Kaneez” which is

efficient for me as I change the font of the pullquote to improve my cover over all. Apart from changing the font, I also change the colour as I realise from feedback that the pullquote should not stand out as much as the name although they are

different size. To make sure I should change the colour of the pullquote, I do little research on other R&B magazines with artists names and pullquotes as features

on the covers to make sure that this genre is represented through my cover. I will also show my improvements in my future posts.