The author decided to use a professional website called 1001 fonts to create a quality masthead for their magazine called "Beat" rather than using photo editing software. They searched through headlines on the site to find a font fitting their pop and vintage style magazine but ultimately changed to a less bold font based on feedback from their target audience that the masthead was less important than the cover image. To create the final masthead, the author inserted a black circle in their page layout software and overlaid the magazine name "beat." in white Embassy BT font with a period beside it to emphasize the name and reference a musical beat.

1. CREATING MY
MASTHEAD

2. Instead of creating my Masthead within a editing software such as Photoshop I
decided to use a professional website in order to create a quality sealing.

3. The website is called 1001 fonts. I have determined that my magazine will be called Beat which I have entered
in the top the website. The fonts which came up immediately were not useable as a masthead as they did not
fit the parameters of my research.

4. In order to be useable on my magazine front cover I switched my selection to
headlines.

5. I spent time going through the website deciding which headline would look
best at the masthead for my magazine. Looking for a style that was pop based.
In the end I choose the three that I believe look best and then submitted them
to my target audience.

6. After much deliberation I decided that if I was to go with a pop, vintage
look that the font/masthead did not fit into the style that I wanted. For
this reason I changed the masthead to something less bold as my target
audience had already informed me that the masthead was less
important than the image. In order to ensure my masthead would
appeal to my audience I used social media.

7. Overall feeling generated from personal messages and comments on the
post were extremely positive and for this reason I have decided to include
the masthead.

8. To create this masthead I started by inserting a black circle into Pageplus,
this I coloured in entirely black in order for it to contrast to the eventual
magazines background.

9. I then overlaid text over the top of the circle in white as seen above.
This text is in the font of Embassy BT. I also purposely left a full
stop beside it in order to emphasise the name: beat. As a ‘.’ can be
viewed as a beat.