Joe Dolan is designing the masthead font for a magazine cover and is considering four options: Myriad Pro, Bebas, BankGothicLTBT, and XXL. Myriad Pro is tall and effective in all capitals like XXL, but may not be bold enough. Bebas is very bold like XXL but may be too stretched out. BankGothicLTBT could fill the space but is distorted and unlike XXL. Joe ultimately chooses Myriad Pro as it is clear, tall, and represents capitals effectively like XXL while filling the space at the top of the page.

1. Main Task- Masthead Font
Design
Candidate Name: Joe Dolan
Centre Number: 64135
Candidate Number: 2043

2. Myriad Pro
THE UNSEENMyriad Pro is a font I chose because it is tall, effective when the font is in all capitals of
which is similar to XXL and makes that look effective. The text can be manipulated
without any distortion too it and also would fit very well on my front cover with the space I
have got as it is tall and bold. However, the concern I have will be that it is not bold
enough and isn’t as similar to XXL’s font as I would like.
Links to 2DBZ magazine logo

3. Bebas
The Unseen
Ifeel that this font is very bold and is the boldness that is similarly linked with the XXL font used. It is tall of which might be an
issue with my magazine as Ihave tospread the font out tomatch the blank space andensure there is enough space to
accommodate the main image.
Similar to the XXL Font used for its
masthead

4. The Unseen
I choose this font because it is quite stretched out and would be effective within the space
I need to fill. It is however quite distorted and doesn’t link to XXL’s Font used but also
doesn’t seem as bold as it should be for the main font on the front cover it needs to be
more captivating.
BankGothicLTBT

5. In the end I chose….
THE UNSEEN
I have decided to use MYRIAD PRO as it is clear and tall and represents the capitals
very effectively just like XXL’s font does. But also it fills in the blank space at the top of
my page where my masthead for my front cover page will be present.
The lettering of my masthead will match up to a white/grey background therefore
contrasting with one another. However, it may be adapted with layering effects such as
drop shadows that therefore will help the font “pop out” of the page.