Typography

I have used the website dafont.com to try and see which types of fonts I would like to use as my logo for my magazine. The left hand side are more funky than the ones towards the right, mostly music magazines have quite a basic font for their logo. Magazines like Q and NME have just a simple bold font. I think these simple fonts are quite effective because they don't require to be right in your face, as they mainly want to promote the artists on the cover, and readers usually buy magazines because their favourite bands/artists are on the cover. I have chosen to use the colour black as it is relevant the genre of the music that will be in my magazine. My favourite fonts are probably the ones in the middle and on the right.

After playing around with which fonts I would like to use I have chosen three of my favourite fonts to start creating my logo. I have put a red rectangular background because magazines like Q and NME use them which makes them very effective but simple, I also thought it would make the logo stand out more.  I have finally concluded that my chosen logo for the magazine will be the middle one. I think that it's not as basic as the other two but isn't too irrelevant for my magazine. Inside my magazine I will use a range of different fonts and sizes to show variety.Also I will name my magazine RHM (Red Hot Music) so I will include the name 'Red Hot Music' underneath the abreviation to make it clear to the reader what the magazine is called.

I have researched on DaFont fonts for my artists name on the front cover. I got inspiration to make the font curly from Q's magazine December issue. As I was researching I have concluded that these three fonts are the fonts I have liked the most.

Between these three fonts I have chosen two that I like the best; the one on the left and the middle one. These two fonts work well on where I would like to place the font on my front cover.

I have researched on DaFont which fonts I would like to use as my titles for my cover stories. The three fonts I liked the most are the ones on the left hand side. The font I will more likely use for my cover story titles is the top left font. I have added more fonts to show a variety of different fonts onto my magazine.