The document discusses font choices for a pop magazine called "We Love Pop". It considers fonts with hearts, flowers, stars, and simplistic designs that could fit the pop genre. A heart font is chosen for the masthead to represent love and follow conventions of pop magazines. Handwriting fonts will provide a personal connection for the readership while basic texts convey facts. A mixture of bold and childish fonts on the final cover design make the magazine fit the pop genre visually.

1. Each of these fonts possess qualities which can be found
in a general pop magazine, for example ‘We Love Pop’
magazine includes the use of a heart in their masthead,
therefore I have decided to explore fonts including hearts,
flowers and stars, this type of font fits the genre of music
and perfectly and conveys contents of the magazine
including love. The font located second is simplistic and could
be adapted to fit the pop genre by applying colour to the
surrounding space, this is a simplistic design but it has the
potential to fit any genre with the correct use of colour.
The font including stars is extremely relevant to the pop
genre, not only do stars often feature on the front cover
of pop magazines but they convey the use of pop stars
and emphasise their star quality to a further extent. A
similar style is reflected through the third font,
instead of stars the use of flowers is present.
Flowers illustrate femininity highly, this is perfect for
a pop magazine as the readership are females,
therefore the use of a floral font will appeal to them.
While considering design options I focused on fonts
which include the use of hearts, the fourth font will
primarily be or be similar to the font I will be using for my
masthead. While conducting various pieces of research I
found out that ‘We Love Pop’ magazine generally saw
an increase in sales when they modernised the magazine and emphasized their iconic
‘heart’ symbol which represents love. The decision to choose a font containing hearts is ideal
to be featured on a pop magazine as it abides by generalised pop conventions also
indicating a range of themes to the audience.
The final font that I have considered to be featured on my magazine again fits the pop genre
perfectly as the modern edgy vibe can be interpreted differently depending on placement in
the magazine. The edges are almost ‘furry’ looking, this is fun and playful especially when
situated in a sell line possibly mentioning cute, fluffy animals.
For my contents page and double page spread I will combine handwriting fonts and a series
of basic texts to connote the mode of address to the readership, for example a handwriting
font will illustrate a more direct form of address whereas I will use basic texts to convey
statements, questions and facts. By using a direct mode of address the audience will feel a
connection with the magazine which feels personal to them, almost like a friend.

2. Here are a selection of fonts
which I will consider using for all
other selections of text besides
the masthead and sell lines.
Each of them are similar in
various ways and developed
links can be made between the
six fonts which will combine and
work within my contents page
and double page spread.
After the process of creating my front cover I decided to
combine a mixture of bold fonts with a range of childish fonts
that make the magazine look and feel as if it fits perfectly in
the pop genre. Visually from the front cover you can see that
the masthead and main sell line predominantly stands out, this
is mainly due to the font and colour choice. The main sell line
has to make a statement, meaning both the font and colour
should stand out to a good extent.