Monday, 14 November 2016

Drafting and Planning: Fonts


When looking for fonts for my masthead I wanted something simple but punchy to match the shortness of the name of my magazine. Because of this, many of my shortlisted masthead fonts are bold, blocky fonts with little to no exaggerated elements – with one exception, Adventurer Light SF. When I typed in one of the possible names for my magazine and saw how it looked in this font, I liked how the “u”, “r” and “e” were presented, I feel like it matched the meaning behind the word “Outre”.

With the body fonts, again I wanted a simplistic font that has little to no obvious features. I wanted this to not distract the reader from the rest of the magazine. My favorite out of the 5 I shortlisted was Century Gothic. I liked this one because while the others were quite bold, Century Gothic remained slender. I found that Century Gothic was the easiest to read for a long period of time because of this.

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