Fonts

For my magazine, I have chosen to stick with a simple font for the majority of my text and then just use a detailed one for the name of the magazine. This is because, from analysing existing magazines, I noticed that interviews and contents pages are written using simple fonts so that they are easier to read and then the title is usually with a more interesting font so as to make it noticeable and recognisable for future editions.

Retro Stereo Wide is the font that I have chosen to use for the title of my magazine, 'The Indiependent'. I chose this font as it jumped out at me immediately and when testing it, it looked good across the top of my magazine. It is also easy to read, despite being more arty than that of a font like Times New Roman. I also used it in my contents page when repeating the name of the magazine at the top of that page too. Using it on more than one page also shows continuation throughout the magazine.

For the rest of my text, I used the simple font of Arial as this text is extremely easy to read and so works well for my long article about the band on the double page spread. It also matches the font on the double page spread of the articles I looked at in previous magazines such as NME and Mojo and these magazines reach the same target audience as mine.