Name of Magazine and choice of font.

I aim for a font that is bold and catches the eye of my audience, since my magazine is a pop genre I aim for modern theme and not mimicking Top of the Pops. 


I have come up with a magazine name to represent my pop genre music magazine; my magazine name is FRONTIER. I have chosen this name because the name is referring to areas beyond the boundary, which means that my magazine is not selling the image of Top of the Pops, but advertising to an audience aged between 15 - 25. The reason I chose FRONTIER as a magazine name is because I think it represents of being forward and pushing the boundaries by not following the rules. This what I thought straight away when I come across this name, I was going to pick Shuffle as a magazine name but I preferred the sound of FRONTIER because it does not sound like tacky but bold and upfront. Shuffle was a good name which presented music but I was not sure if it would appeal to an audience. 


I have chosen my colour scheme to be red, black, grey and white. For my font I have chosen red and that should be on a white background so it blends in well. If I choose black ground then a red font will not be permitted, I will have to think of another colour in the future, this depends on how well my image of the artist is presented. i.e. choice of colour for my artist. For a red font I aim it to have an shadow affect or have a border around my lettering, possibly with another colour. For my magazine I intend to place my artist's image infront of the name of my magazine to show that the artist is really important to my readers. By doing this I have to have a big font size that is bold and top of the magazine, which fills the along the entire magazine width.
However I have now realised that I should include more colours instead of red, black, grey and white because I aiming for a pop genre. Since I posted a post about my mood board it made me realise the more colour I include will have an effect on my readers. I will be including blue, pinks, greens, and yellows in my magazine. I am thinking of pink or blue for the colour of the name of the magazine on the front cover, because yellow and green would not appeal to my audience; I need a colour that will stand out on a white background. Blue and pink are pop genre colours and I think they would suit my magazine. 

I have highlighted the paragraph to show that I will not be using this colour however the background parts I talk about is what I will be thinking about in the future when I come to designing  my magazine. The pink writing is where I will not be considering and the red writing is where I will be taking into account.  

For my name I chose a variety of names and asked various people, the biggest number of votes was between two names; FRONTIER and SHUFFLE for a pop genre music magazine. I researched the definition behind the two names and FRONTIER fitted my ideal sort of genre. (not top of the pops). Shuffle was strong choice of word because it represented music of any genre, however I was aiming for a word that could make my readers think, 'why was the name chosen' 'its bold and a statement' This is why I preferred the name FRONTIER than the word shuffle because well suited to how I feel towards my magazine. 

As you can see the Harabara font is the most popular font that is going to be used for my font for the name of my magazine. I chose this font because it could represent a pop genre, as you can see I chose a variety of font to comply with a pop genre. I think the Harabara is a modern and simple font which is well suited to a pop genre magazine. I know now that the simpler the magazine is presented the more people are willing to buy and read my magazine in the future.