Many music magazines use a variety of fonts depending on what kind of genre it is, for most of them the similarities come from the boldness, colour and the lettering of their mastheads. The purpose of this post was to research what fonts, lettering, names and colour are popular on music magazines currently. I think from this I know roughly how to style and letter my masthead including to focus on the colour of it too. Mastheads like 'XXL', 'NME', 'CLASH', 'VIBE' etc are all serifs which show the power it holds even from far away in supermarkets as it is visible and vibrant. 'BBC music' is a serif where it's shown to be sophisticated and angelic plus the 'u' in the lettering is emphasized using italics which can provide a personal message to the audience. 'Rolling Stone' font is a serif and has this royalty style to it, this makes it more elegant and the importance it holds in the magazine plus it looks handwritten and simple which is very effective which I love. As off from this research I think I now roughly have created one in my mind but I would have to test it out before any final decisions. I really have benefited from this typography research as it has ensured me to use the key elements when creating a masthead and sticking with what most people prefer.
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