Introduction

To understand further what captures the attention of audience we chose 10 magazines or posters for our genre that stood out to us the most. This helped to give us an idea of what sort of fonts we might use for our magazines, here are the 10 magazines/posters that I found were pretty eye-catching:

 

 

After making a collage of the ten images I focused on what sort of font I would want for my magazine. I looked at the colors that were used for each magazine and found that the main colors I saw in the masthead were the traditional reggae colors that you would find in the Rasta flag which I preferred than the other typical plain black or white fonts that didn’t really draw my attention as much it was more the background colors that stood out to me.

Here are 10 practice masthead designs that I choose from DaFont and experimented with on InDesign:

Reflection

All of the fonts that I chose were sans serif as the font type is clear and stands out which I think reflects the whole persona of the audience who would be listening to reggae. From their demographics and psychographics you get to learn that this specific audience seems to be pretty easy going and  prefers simple text that is easy to read and grabs their attention. Playing round with different colours and edits, such as shadows I started to narrow my choices of font for my masthead as some began to really stand out to me such as the distorted fonts as they look fun, inventive and captures the eye. When reggae first came out it was unlike what anyone had heard and lots of reggae lyrics are rather political and talk about standing up for what you believe in and not being a puppet to the system, therefore I think that these wavy looking, untraditional and unformal fonts resonates well with the reggae genre as reggae is a form of music that is very unique and also rebels against people who are in control and the traditional styles or main stream sort of music.