Font Research

As we have been creating our magazine front cover and poster we decided to do some more indepth research into different fonts that would suit our genre, audience and type of media it is. When looking at other magazine covers we found that the fonts were bold, large and often in capital letters to attract the attention of their audience. We decided to stick with this convention of fonts and looked on dafont.com website which gives a variety of different fonts that would work for our magazine.
These are the possible options for our magazine font -->

We decided to get a variety of fonts some bold and block letters, and some more gentle. We did this so that we could put them on our magazine and see which ones worked the best. My particular opinion is that the bottom font on the left column will fit the idea of our magazine well as in the font it has spotlights in it, this will make our magazine more unique than others which use typical boring fonts. It also isnt to bold and over whelming that will swallow up our image and the rest of our magazine front cover. The second font on the right hand columne I think will be a bad choice for a font for our magazine as it is in block letters, and it will make our magazine look more like a thriller than a Rom-Com.

Rachel made a questionnaire with all our 10 chosen fonts on it, in which we gave out to the rest of the class, as they are in the age range that will are targetting out magazine at to see which fonts they preferred. We decided to do this as it will show what our audience would prefer therefore will make our magazine more popular.
This is a graph to show the results. It shows that the most popular font is font 3 which is bold and eye catching and the least popular font is 4 with no votes at all. Font 6, 7 & 10 also have a low rate of popularity which makes it a more difficult font to use and attract and audience.