Fonts and colours are important for conveying the intended message and target audience of a music magazine. The right fonts and colours can attract readers and influence whether they buy the magazine. Serif fonts appear older while sans serif fonts like Franklin Gothic Demi look modern and stand out in magazines. Larger, bolder fonts catch readers' attention. Colours also send messages - red may convey passion while blue represents relaxation. The author discusses appropriate and inappropriate font and colour choices for different music genres like rock to effectively target the right readership.

1. Fonts and Colours
BY: Sabah Babamiya

2. Introduction
Using the right fonts and colours for the music magazine is very important. This
is because the colours and fonts send a message to the audience in a form
they can understand. If the audience understand the colours and fonts, then
they will be able to know what the message sent was about. The message that
the producers try to tell the audience through colours and fonts is, showing
what genre the magazine is, showing what age group the magazine is aimed at
and showing what gender its aimed to. Producers can do this by using a pink
and purple as their colour scheme to show the audience that the magazine is
for girls and its for girls aged 6-9. Colours and fonts can convey a lot to the
audience as it can determine whether they buy the magazine or not. Fonts that
are ridged and have a set structure to them can show the audience that it is for
the male audience, who are aged 18+.

3. Fonts
SERIF SAN SERIF
Century Franklin Gothic Demi
Century is a old style font.
You wouldn’t see this style
used very often in
magazines. This style font
would be used in the old
days, as it looks more
scripted.
Franklin Gothic Demi is a modern
type of font. You would see this
style used more often in
magazines. It stands out more to
the audience in magazines as they
are standard and have straight
lines. The text is more blocky.
Serif Thin strokes, not very eye
catching in a magazine
Plain
Strokes are even
throughout the
letter.

4. A font that should not be used
Edwardian script- This font should not be used as the audience can
not see what is written as soon as they see the masthead of the
magazine or the main cover line. It will make the audience not want to
buy the magazine as they wont be able to read the font. This font would
be inappropriate for my magazine as my genre is rock. This would
contradict the genre of my magazine as the text does not match the
genre of rock. The genre of rock would have a very bold font and not be
very curvy. This font conveys to us that it is more for an older
generation, specifically women. Stereotypically women use this type of
font more than men. This font would be appropriate for people who still
write letters to one another or for a classical music magazine, as this
font is portrayed as being elegant and angelic.

5. Font that should be used
Franklin Gothic Demi
Aharoni
Impact
Britannic Bold
Rockwell extra Bold
These are the fonts that should be used in a music magazine. This because
they are blocky, standard, and very clear to read. This will help the audience
read the text fluently and it will make important information stand out.
Magazine producers use these types of fonts for mastheads, titles, main cover
line and sub headings.

6. Hand Written Fonts
Brandley Hand ITC
MV BOLI
Tekton pro
The font types below are shown as hand written
fonts. These are used to give a human element to
the magazine. Usually this type of font is used for a
editorial in a magazine. I will be using one of these
three fonts in my music magazine in the contents
page, where my editorial will be.

7. Size
Huge font
Small font
The bigger the size the better. This is because it will be clear for
the audience to read the text. The text huge text will also catch
the audiences attention. The size of the text usually indicates to
the audience the importance of it.

8. Colours
Colour is a very important part of
producing a magazine. Some
colours work together and some
colours do not work together.
E.g.. Lime green and dark blue
don’t go well together. This can
come off as being obnoxious
towards the audience.
Blue conveys
relaxation and
happiness.
Red conveys hatred,
danger, love, passion,
etc.
Green shows
relaxation,
calmness, and
nature.

9. Rock filler
This doesn’t work as the colours contradict each other and don’t go well with
each other. The colours look awful and seem obnoxious. The colours are
opposite each other in the colour wheel which means that they contradict each
other. Not many people would buy the magazine if I used these colours
together as they are total opposites. These colours and fonts would make me
seem like I wasn’t professional. Also, these are not the colours and fonts that
are usually seen in a rock music magazine. The colours that are seen in a rock
music magazine are black, white and red. They are dark toned colours which
represent the genre. They give off a dark vibe whereas, these colours shown
give a much happier vibe. This font has a very curvy, girly type of vibe. It would
not bring in any rock fans as this font is conveyed to be very girly.

10. These colours work in these types of
magazines
The colours blue and red would work for a car based magazine or a men’s lifestyle magazine.
However, the curvy font would work in a classical music magazine. It show cases the
elegance that classical music has to it.

11. Car Rage
These colours do not suit the genre of cars. This is because when people are
looking for car magazines they usually look for the colours blue, black,
white and red. They are the type of colours that men like and
stereotypically men only buy car magazines. A car magazine company
would never use this curly, curvy type of font or pink and yellow as their
theme. This is too ‘girlish’ for the magazine. Also, these colours are usually
aimed at a younger audience as these are bright and eye catching for
them. These types of girls can come of to be obnoxious and annoying
towards adults. The font screams out childish and girly. These colours and
fonts are definitely not what you would expect to see in a car magazine.

12. These colour work in these types of
magazines.
The colour pink and yellow are used in magazines like we love pop, top of the pops and
girl talk magazine. These magazine are all aimed at girls who are aged 7-11 years.
These magazine are all brightly coloured. Also, top of the pops uses the swirly font to
catch their audiences attention.

13. Magazine colours and
fonts
My magazines name is going to be
called ‘RISE’. I will be showing
some colours and fonts that I may
use in my magazine.
RISE
RISE
RISE RISE
RISE
I might use the font
Rockwell, my
magazine as it
conveys an edgy
vibe. The font is
quite modern and
stands out amongst
others.
This type of font is unique and
stands out. This font may also be
an option for me to use as my
masthead. This font is from
dafont.com and it is called
Rocket pop. It symbolises rock
as the text is bold and edgy.
IMPORTANT TEXT
The colour yellow may be
used to highlight important
text on the front page or it
may be used for a puff.
These are some of the colours that I may use in my
magazine. These colours are used in rock m magazines
mostly as they are dark and deep. However, I have added a
red to give the magazine a pop of colour. The masthead may
be coloured Red. Also, if I use the colour white I will add a
stroke to the text, which will be black, so that the text stands
out more. The colour blue adds a pop of colour.
This is a font from a website called
Dafont.com. I might use this type
of font for my masthead as it
symbolises rock and the rebellious
background of rock. Also, my
masthead may be coloured black,
as people who love rock,
absolutely love the colour black.
This font is called Hard Rock.