The document discusses Ruqayyah Opeolu's research of fonts for her music magazine. She chose several fonts from the Dafont website including "My Girl Is Retro" for its retro style, "Savrao stencil" and "Crackvetica" for their sans serif typography, "Urban jungle" for its cool look, and "Prisma" for its clean cut edges. She initially considered "Empire straight" and "Sandre regular" as masthead fonts but found them difficult to read from a distance. Ultimately, she decided on "Sandre regular" as the masthead font and "Prisma" and "Crackvetica" for the coverlines

1. RESEARCH OF
FONTS
Ruqayyah Opeolu

2. o I chose ‘My Girl Is Retro’ font from ‘Dafont’
website which was really effective as I
selected all my desired fonts from only that
particular website. As the font is called Retro,
which means an initiative or style, this is what I
want my magazine to portray- style and
music.
o As ‘Savrao stencil’ is purely Sans Serif, this
appealed to me as that’s I want the
typography to be in my magazine. The design
also looked different from any others which is
effective as I wanted my magazine to stand
out.
o ‘Crackvetica’, similar to ‘Savaro stencil’, was
chosen for its Sans Serif typography and
design. I wanted the cracks to represent the
diversity of music in a positive manner and
how it has evolved over the years.
o The design of ‘Urban jungle’ was chosen for its
cool look which would be sure to attract
customers for the magazine.
o ‘Prisma’ also has a cool design which was
simple, but an attention getter nonetheless.
With clean cut edges, ‘Prisma’ would give my
magazine a crisp neat look which is always
effective.

3. o When choosing ‘Empire straight’, I initially had the
idea that it would be the number one choice for
my masthead. However, when this was put into
practice, the font was difficult to read from afar
which is not effective as I would want my
magazine to be recognizable from far distances,
which is a convention of a successful magazine.
o Due to my love for the font, I considered using it for
the coverlines. Again, when I put this into practice,
it turned out to be horrible and unreadable.
o ‘Sandre regular’ was one of my favorites as it is a
different font in which is not commonly used in music
magazines.
o ‘Geomancy Extra Bold’ was not included in my
favorites as it did not look like it could be a
masthead of a music magazine with its simple
design that did not stand out from the rest of the
fonts.
o At the end, I decided to use ‘Sandre Regular’ as my masthead as it is bold and not
frequently used in music magazines, which means my own magazine would be remembered
for its font.
o For the coverlines, I decided to go with ‘Prisma’ and ‘Crackvetica’ as even though they did
not look too good as the masthead, they did the job for the coverlines as they did not need
to be as extravagant as the masthead.