Saturday, 30 November 2013

Typography Selection


I've recently been doing a lot of research into type that i potentially may use for the main title for the book and below is a selection of the fonts i found that i thought looked appealing and could work with being the name of the book on the book cover.



Looking at them you can tell that some are way different than others like some are serif slab text and others might be san serif text. When i looked into vintage 60's graphics that used type in the imagery a lot of them used slab serif and others used san serif. This is because san serif was a big thing around the 1950's and helped to make artwork look more modern and other types of media. However slab serif is also a popular typeface that was commonly used in the 60's and kind of resembles America at the time and makes work look strong and bold with it still looking somewhat informal. Some of the type i found was a bit scruffy and that is what i wanted to find to make the type relate to the story and gangs, being scruffy, messy and informal to relate to most of the themes and overall impression of the book and what the plot is. I haven't officially decided which one i'm going to choose for my final font type for the title of the book but eventually i'll come to a decision when i experiment more with my ideas, colours etc and see which works best and of course get advise and opinions from my classmates and teachers.

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