Font Testing

Possibly the most important feature of a magazine cover is the masthead. It's what most audiences look at when they search for a magazine. My music magazine will be called 'SCORE', in relation to classical instruments and film score music, so it's important that I have a font that says traditional, but has the modern magazine twist.

These were the fonts I found.

For that all-important second opinion, I asked my sister (who also has experience in scored music) which font she thought was best for a music magazine based around film score. She suggested the first (which I'd been leaning towards originally), because it looked more regal with its bars.

With a bit of a recolouring to suit my magazine's theme, I ended up with this masthead:

Draft Sketches

As a vague guideline to how I want my pieces to end up, I've drawn a few rough sketches as first drafts for my front cover, contents page, and double page spread. These will help me with my photography for the pages and placement of text.