Blog 5- Fonts

I have been looking into many different fonts which I plan on using in my magazine. The site i used was http://www.dafont.com/ and it gave me a wide variety to choose from. It also allowed me to download the fonts and to edit them using photoshop and paint.
The type of fonts I am looking to use are ones that will work well with the pop theme of my magazine. I want fonts that will appeal to the younger generation, and so ideally I am looking for something curly, or a little bit outrageous.

This font was the first of my options. With a little bit of editing it has changed into more of the type of font I am looking for. I doubt that if I used this one I would incorporate the purple into it, but I would have to use a colour of some sort, depending on what my final colour scheme is. I like the style of this font as I think it would appeal to many teenagers, and fits in well with the 'POP' genre of my magazine.

This is another one of my options for my magazine title font. It has quite a quirky look to it and also it is still quite fun and funky, which is ideal when creating a cheesy pop magazine. Again if I were to use this font then I would have to make it a lot larger and change the colour to fit in with my colour scheme. This font is very girly which would work well with my magazine, as my target audience is mainly teenage girls. Although this is not one of my favourite choices, it is an option as I have not fully decided which font I will be using yet.

This font is called 'Billo Dream' and is one of my favourite options for the front cover title of my magazine. It is fun and appeals well to the idea of a pop magazine. The colouring would be edited to fit my colour scheme and it would also be made considerably bigger in order to really work as the title of my magazine.

Blog 4- Main Task Flat Plans

This was my initial design for my front cover. I decided to call my magazine "POP WORLD" as it is simple, and will be suitable for my target audience, which is teenagers. The tag line will have relevance to the title, and in this initial design I didn't really know what it was going to be. I plan to have a large image of a girl group named "ELECTRIC" on the front cover, as this is going to be the main sell of my magazine. I will also include articles such as this weeks chart and then fashion advice, kiss & tell and real life stories. This will all fit in well with the girly happy theme I will be promoting in my magazine. The colour scheme I plan to use (although not included in my flat plans) will be a mixture of pink and blue, as these colours work well with the pop theme. Although they contrast I think that a mixture of the two put together in a cheesy pop magazine will work well. It will also stand out to readers and will be appealing to people who like the pop genre of music. I plan to include many images of clothing and also around 3 or 4 photo's of actual 'celebrities' which will all relate to different articles. The barcode will be evident in the bottom right hand corner, with articles/ features scattered around the images so that my cover looks full and exciting.






This is my second flat plan of my front cover. It is a lot more detailed that the first, and it looks a lot more like I want my front cover to look like. The main sell "ELECTRIC" is very evident, along with the other articles, which all appear to have relevant pictures. This cover has the correct tag line which I plan to use for the final cover of my magazine "Your guide to the world of POP!" This tag line is ideal as it links into the title of my magazine, but is also simple and will be catchy to the reader. Although it has not been included, I will put the barcode in the bottom right hand corner. The main sell title "ELECTRIC" will be in a different font to the main title, as it will stand out more this way. Also the blue, silver and pink colour scheme will work well with this band as although they are pop, they have a little bit of difference in them as well. I plan to get all of the fonts I choose to use from www.dafont.com.

This is the contents page of my magazine. The CONTENTS will be larger than the pop worl font as it will be blatently obvious that way. The tag line will be included on the contents page, along with some simple pictures, and one photo of the main sell. This photo will simply be a smaller verison of the one on the double page spread, as it will be easier. However, I may end up taking a better photo which I may put on the contents, it just depends which one I like the most. I plan to have simple images for the rest of the pictures in my contents page, as it will be difficult to get so many photo's for this page. The contents font will match the one on the front cover, as this will add to the theme of the magazine. The colour scheme will probably be either very similar or the same for the contents page, otherwise it will look out of place and slightly odd. The page numbers and other fonts on this page will be a sans serif font, as this is informal and my magzine isn't really meant to be formal, it is simply for teenagers who like reading about pop and celebrities. This magazine may be seen as very feminine, but that is ideally the look that I will be going for.


This is the double page spread article I plan to use for my magazine. It will be all about the band "ELECTRIC" who will feature on the front cover, and be a feature on the contents page. The title will be in the same font that is used on the main cover, and also it will be the same colour. So this title depends on whichever colour scheme I use. There will be an image of the band in the centre, with writing all around it. This is so that the image stands out to the reader, especially people who are flicking through the magazine thinking about buying it. The text will be in time format, as I plan to do my article on "a day on tour with ELECTRIC". I will start at the beginning of the day and work my way towarda a gig, and then what happens when it finishes. I will also include a small advert at the bottom, promoting the bands new single. This is so that it has relevance to the bands current musical status and so that any readers who like the look of them can know what their single is called and if/ when it is out.

Preliminary Task Flat Plans

This is the cover that I plan to have for my college magazine.
It doesn'e have any colour on it at the moment, as I plan to include this when I make my cover. Ideally I would have liked to include a bit more detail in my flat plans, but I didn't really allocate myself enough time to do so. I would like to have this design, as it is simple and also it will allow me to include a large image of someone in the centre. To make my cover stand out I plan to use a failry bright colour scheme, and keeping in theme with the Freshers party I am definitely considering a read, blue and white colour scheme. My articles will be relevant to everything that comes with the starting of college, including some things for the new students. My tag line will be simple but effective; Whats going on in YOUR college!?. This is so that it catches the eye, and is remembered, but also it is simple and not easy to forget.

This is my contents page flat plan. For this I want it to be simple, so that there isn't too much reading involved, and also it is precise and to the point. I plan to have two images. One of the main sell, the Freshers party, and the second being of another big article for the magazine. The pages will simply be numbered down the sides, so that the reader can see exactly which is on each page. Again, I haven't included a colour scheme in my plan as it wasn't something I had any idea about, so I plan to follow the same scheme as the front cover; which will hopefully be a red, blue and white colour scheme.

Evaluation Preliminary Task

I thought that the preliminary task was quite good. It was simple, but at the same time there was a few challenges that and skills that I had to use. I found the software quite easy to use, although I did have a few problems with certain things, such as aligning my text and matching colours perfectly to eachother. I was quite pleased with my magazine cover as it had everything that I wanted it to include, but I found that the photo I used made the background hard to match text colours with, so in future when I do my main coursework task I will need to make sure I pick a background image that has a good colour to match to my text. The only thing I wasn't happy with was my contents page. It looked boring as it was a plain white background, and the text came out a funny colour even though I tried to make sure it was an exact match to that I had used on my front cover. Overall I think that the preliminary task was a good introduction to the software and I think that it will be a good use of knew knowledge to complete the main coursework task.