The document discusses the development of a magazine masthead for a romance magazine. Several fonts and color options were considered based on feedback. Initially sharper and edgier fonts were considered unsuitable. A softer, rounded font was selected. Black and red color options were deemed too plain or not matching other magazine elements. Finally, a silver font color was selected as suiting the romance genre and working well with gold accents planned for the magazine cover.

1. Magazine Masthead Ideas/Development
Modern
Personal Feedback: This first font was my initial idea,
using a variety of different examples, to come to the
conclusion about the type of font that suited a Film
magazine.
Feedback: Although the font may have some good
aspects for example the way in which the text is quite
square, I could see this font being used on a magazine
cover however not on the cover of a romance magazine
cover.

2. •MODERN
• Personal Response: This text could be the least successful
for my masthead however, I would attempt to use this
font in my magazine cover as a while.
• Feedback: I believe that this particular font would not be
effective as a masthead for a magazine, it could be used
for the font for the name of the film, if the film were sci-fi
or action/adventure however I don’t believe this font
would be a good masthead for a magazine representing
this particular genre.

3. • MODERN
• Personal Response:This was the stage in masthead
development where the idea was beginning to take shape,
this suited the name of the magazine. However for a
romance cover I believed it was too sharp.
• Feedback: This font could potentially be a good font for a
masthead, however the font is not actually bold enough
to be used on a masthead and the characters themselves
are a little sharp and edgy which the romance genre
doesn’t tend to resemble.

4. MODERN
Personal Response: This font was the font that I finally chosen to use in
my masthead the idea of the font resembling the name of the
magazine, and also incorporating the soft, rounded edges that I
wanted to have.
Feedback: This font has all the elements in which to make a decent
masthead, the characters are soft and rounded whilst the characters
also are bold giving the masthead the opportunity to be coloured and
changed, this font I could see being used on a magazine of this genre.

5. • After deciding the develop the final font further, I had to then
develop the colour of the font, beginning with a plan normal font
colour.
• Personal Response: The colour black did not resemble the feeling that
I wished to portray through my magazine, the black did not
incorporate the soft yet stylish love feeling as well as I wished.
• Feedback: The colouring of this font is too plain to be used on a
masthead resembling this genre, the black you would particularly
expect to be seen on a horror magazine or a magazine relating to
darkness.

6. • Personal Response:As a common colour associated with the romance
genre, I believed that red would be a good colour to use, however I
realised that relating to the image I would want to use, that the red
would not actually match the rest of the magazine cover.
• Feedback- Again the colouring of the font here does not work in
terms of the poster itself however it does resemble the romance
genre, I can understand the use of the red colour however I don’t
believe that the picture and other elements of the poster could
match this. If the poster would be darker this could be effective.

7. • Personal Response: The gold was a good progression in terms of the
colours for the masthead, however I did not believe that the colours
were what I wanted just yet so I decided to use the gold colour
elsewhere on the cover.
• Feedback: If the font were to be gold rather than a browny colour I
think it could be good, however the colour shown above isnt too
effective.

8. • Personal Response: Finally I came to the colour that I believed suited
the magazine the most and using the softer, silver colour, I think this
and the gold colours on the poster would work sufficiently well.
• Feedback: Although the colours may be quite plain, the colours
actually would fit the expectations of the audience in terms of the
masthead and the rest of the magazine cover.