Homemade feels

Now that we have the color palette down, we can focus on the font styling. Like every brand, I want my magazine to have a "signature font" for the title, headings, and certain texts in order for my audience to recognize it. An article about creative layouts from the Canva's design school blog gave me a brilliant idea about making the fonts seem like handwriting.

                 

The handwritten aspects of the layout on the right makes it seem extremely distressed and anxious, while on the left, the handwriting is a little smoother and therefore classier. This emphasizes the difference in themes, as one is about fashion and the other is promoting a female music festival. In both, the handwritten fonts look as if they were written pretty fast, adding an unorganized, homemade, and abstract feel to each layout. Personally, this is certainly a feature that would visually attract me to a something, which is why I want to attempt to achieve this kind of design for my magazine.

If I do end up including a handwritten font, I would only use it for the masthead, headlines, and the article titles to give the magazine an abstract and creative visual appeal.  The actual text for the body paragraphs and the table of contents, however, will be in a font similar to sans serif or cambria, this is so people do not have a hard time understanding or reading.

In the long run, being picky about a font seems silly, but when creating the final project it is a detail that can either make or break your magazine. Think about it, when looking at something aesthetically pleasing, everything flows and comes together in perfect harmony. For a magazine, font style is an important element in reaching that "perfect harmony."

Citations
Theodor, Veronika. "Creative Layout Ideas From 50 Beautiful Print and Digital Photo Collages." Design School. Canva, 01 Apr. 2016. Web. 12 Mar. 2017. <https://designschool.canva.com/blog/collage-ideas/>.