Font Decisions And Masthead

These are the fonts that I was choosing out of to be the font I use for my masthead. The ones on the left looked like children drew them or a horror theme. Some of them I really liked but looked like the magazine would be aimed at more males than females. I felt some of those fonts would be too much for the masthead as I wanted the artist to be the main attraction on the front cover. I was originally going to choose the one highlighted as it's simple and reminds me of the masthead for Vibe magazine and as I am taking inspiration from that magazine, it linked well together. The colour scheme and masthead has since changed from that red colour to a burgundy, the burgundy colour links with the lipstick colour that my artist has chosen to wear. Below is how the burgundy works well with the white background and goes well against the header bar. My masthead position has changed from what I orginally wanted it to be. I said that I would have the artist superimposed over the masthead as I wanted most focus to direct to the artist but after playing around with the image and masthead, I have determined that the masthead looks better over the artist. The font is very bold and in capital letters to allow the readers to establish what the magazine name is. I used the font LA Headlights BTN for most of the text on my front cover, it was simple and easy to read which is what I wanted for my front cover.

For the masthead I ended up using none of those fonts in the above image and instead used the below masthead. I have used several different blending options to make it stand out and look like a real masthead. I used the effects: drop shadow, inner shadow and  bevel and emboss to create the effect of the masthead popping out and standing out on the page. There's a difference between what I was going to do with the red and blue colour scheme compared to the burgundy and gold one. The red masthead at first looked really dull and flat and didn't really stand out and establish the name of the magazine. I also feel as though that font didn't work with the main image and didn't work as a whole on the magazine front cover. The red and blue didn't work well on top of the header bar whereas the white and burgundy do and also the font size is made bigger to showcase the artists more.