Fonts and colour

When choosing the colour for your genre, you have to be careful
and very considerate when doing this. This is because you need to
make sure that the colours you choose go with your genre and it
goes with the mood that is being created. This is because you
dont want to confuse your audience through choice of colour and
you want the colour to be at the right level so that it is easy to
read the text.
Similar to the colour, the fonts need to be appropriate for the
genre to avoid confusion for the audience. They also need to be in
the right style or shape so that they are easy to read. For
example, for a masthead you will need a font that is thick,
standard and no style so that it can make a great communication
with the audience and has a sense of communication.

Fonts

(Old Font)

This is an olden days type of font.

You can tell this through the way
it is all stylish and it is not as
straight forward to read. This
would be a bad example to use in
my magazine because if my
audience will not be able to read
it or have trouble reading it, no
one will bother buying the
magazine.

New
Font
You can tell that this is a
new font because of how it
is easy and straight
forward to read. Unlike the
old font, this type of text
has no style to it and it is
more of a modern day type
of text. I would need to use
this type of font or similar
for my magazine because
it will prevent my audience
from getting confused
when reading the text.

Unacceptable Fonts
Example 1
ABCDEFG
HIJKLMN
OPQRSTU
VWXYZ

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNO
PQRSTUV
WXYZ

These are examples of fonts I

would not use in my magazine.
If the audience is unable to
read what is written because
the text is not easy to read, my
magazine will not be as
successful and so I have to
make sure I do not use any
fonts of this type.

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNO
PQRSTUV
WXYZ

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMN
OPQRSTU
VWXYZ

Display fonts
These are some of the fonts
that I think would be
appropriate to use:
I think that these fonts are
appropriate for a music
because they are quite thick
and bold, they stand out and
so this makes it clear and easy
for the audience to read.
However, these are also like
the typical fonts that you will
find on a Magazine front cover
because the companies want
the audience to be able to read
it straight away.

Arial Black
Franklin Gothic Demi
Rockwell Extra Bold
Gill Sans Ultra Bold

Hand written letters

These are some of the good
example of hand written text I
have found. I think that these will
be quite good when it comes to
writing my editor's message
because I want the audience to be
able to recognise that this type of
text is the editors message and
the font of it from the text is quite
noticeable.

Bradley Hand ITC

Gabriola

Harlow Solid Italic

Lucida Calligraphy
Segoe Script

Letter size
Big Text Size
Small Text Size

Text size is both quite important and

significant in magazines. It will be the
way in which the audience will be able
to know what is most important and
what is less important. An example for
this could be how the mastheads or the
main coverlines for all magazine are all
big but then the coverlines are in a
smaller size. It also adds meaning as to
telling the audience what the
masthead is and what the description
is on the contents as well as at the
front page.

Colour wheel
Similar to fonts, colour also creates meaning as it can give an idea of what
genre the magazine is or what the target audience is. This is because in some
genres, there are certain colours that you have to show and the also have to
match the atmosphere and the preferences for the target audience of your
chosen genre. However, failure to do so can lead to confusion, for example, in
hard rock music, the audience would be expecting dark colours such as black
but if you show colours such pick, it will cause confusion and you can potentially
lose your audience from and your magazine would not be a success.
For my chosen genre- R&B, I am thinking of using the colours white, black and
Red: is associated with energy, war, danger,
red.

strength, power, determination as well as

passion, desire, and love.
Red is a very emotionally intense colour which
also links to R&B music.
Black: Black is associated with power, elegance
and formality which would be some of the
things you might expect from an R&B artist.
White: White is associated with light,
goodness, innocence and purity. It is considered
to be the colour of perfection.

Masthead and why it does not work

Groove

This mast head would not

work because you can just
about see what it says
because there is bad use
of colour; it would be
difficult to read this from a
distance because you the
colour blend into one
another and so I wouldn't
want to show this to my
audience.

Mind map of colours I would

use
Black

Red
Colours I
would
use

White