Font and Colour Mood Board Analysis

Font and Colour Mood Board Analysis Font- The font that is used in any magazine is very important. It needs to be clear, bold and easy to read. For a masthead or any sorry of heading, it is doubly important that the font stands out and catches the audience’s eye. Although this may be tricky, the font should also have a slight connection to the genre (of the music magazine) to indicate to the audience that it is in fact that genre. For example, for rock music, because it is very loud and hard-hitting music, it would include spikier, pointier text. Whereas more indie, hip-hop music on the other hand, it more happy and relaxed so the font would be more curved, plump or cloud-like shaped. For my rap magazine, I am going to use big bold text, with an American type of theme due to the popularity that rap has in America. Colour- Similarly to the font in a magazine, the colours used throughout the magazine is also very important. On the front cover of a magazine, the amount of colours used should be limited to about 4 maximum. This is so the front over doesn’t look untidy and scruffy. The colour palette is important because really it should have a connection with the genre of the music that you’re doing. For example, the gothic, rock, punk, music magazines will include darker colours like black, grey, navy etc. On the other hand, indie, RnB, hip-hop genre magazines will included brighter colours like red, orange, yellow, green etc. In my magazine, because it is Rap (quite a deep, emotional genre), the colours I’m mostly going to use will be black and white. But because of the American Theme I’m doing, there will be hints of blue and red also.