Font type research

Introduction

I have decided to call my music magazine impact as it fits the nature of the music magazine with the rock/metal genre being reckless and boisterous as it is, the name impact portrays something unique and memorable. I chose this genre because I am a fan of it myself.

This was a good decision because I have a lot of knowledge about the rock genre making it useful for me to experiment and create new ideas for font types. This genre was a good decision because it is well known but only supported often by groups of people with unique view points making my magazine memorable

Font of rock magazines

Bold and often sharp fonts are used in most rock magazines along with vibrant colours either in the text or in the colour scheme. These are used to make memorable effects of their magazines on people.

Experimentations

Connotations of fonts

Black box this is bold and deep so creates image of loud impacting musicMonohypster is unique and bold so amplifies psychographic profiling in the ways of being outcasted it is also lively like the genre of rock

Broken glass is bold and cracked and highlights the boisterous and ruthless nature of the genre Babalusa cut shows the magazines nature by making the masthead look cut shows how the magazine

Highjack shows loudness and makes for an almost technobeat sort of magazine so in that way it fits and doesn’t fit the genre of the magazine

Wox stripped makes the magazine look exciting and fun giving it the nature of rock genre but also makes it look more R&B

Love box is bold and highlights the I in the title showing the almost ruthless nature of rock music

Disposition demo looks slick and rugged showing the smooth but reckless nature of rock artists.

Decision

I have decided to use broken glass 74 font as it is the most boldly noticeable and loud as well as the shattered affect highlighting the reckless “I don’t care” nature of rock/metal music more than the other fonts I found.