Typography and text sizes

For a magazine, you can have a variety of fonts and each font can be interpreted in a different way. It is important to have a font that reflects and suits your style of magazine. The fonts and text sizes I use will create a conventional magazine front cover, contents and double page spread. Below are some examples of different fonts and an analysis of  them.

This font represents art, drawing, doodling, teenagers, school, art book and a comic.

This font expresses sport, video games, masculinity, futuristic and modern.

This font equates to street art, graffiti, creativeness, funky, artistic, urban, cool, skateboard parks, illegal, crime. 

This font represents boldness, simplicity, childish, plain and basic.

This font expresses something important, classy, sophisticated, professional, formal, serious, sharp, newspapers, plain, formal and posh.

You can also get 2 other fonts called 'sans serif' and 'serif', which are very popular. 'Sans serif' is commonly related to masculinity and 'serif' is related to femininity.  

If you were to put in order the different sizes of text on a front cover, it is likely going to start with the masthead as the largest, then a main cover line that references the cover image, then other subheading cover lines and then tag lines under the cover lines.

Font size can create a "hierarchy" or a sense of order on a page. E.g. the contents page would start with a heading, then underneath would be a subheading and then underneath that would be the page by page content.

For example, below you can see both 'Q' and 'Vibe' music magazines start with a big title at the top and the writing gets smaller as you get further down the magazine.