Magazine mastheads and fonts

Indie music magazine mastheads

Unique  - this is a suitable name for an indie music magazine, as a more unique style and artist is something this target group are more likely to be looking for. This masthead will easily grab their attention and appeal to them.

INDI -  this masthead instantly sums up the style of music and also the whole feeling of the magazine. This would be quite effective for people who are interested in this genre as it stops them having to flick through other magazines to find the right genre, but instead instantly makes it clear and will attract their attention.

IM - 'im' standing for 'indie music'. This name is suitable in attracting new and old readers. New readers will be curious by this unique and slightly strange magazine name, but unique and strange may be the types of things that are appealing to an indie music fan, so it works will with drawing in their attention. It is also suitable to old readers as the in house abbreviation is going to be something they are familiar and fond with, so when they see it they will remember the times they've read this magazine before.

Aspire - a lot of indie music magazine fans fit into the demographic group of 'aspirers', therefore this single word as a masthead may appeal to what they tend to do when viewing magazines and artists. The more younger target audience of this genre music magazine may relate to this masthead straight away, sparking further interest.

Noise - this is a suitable name for a masthead as it instantly captures the sense of it being a musical magazine, this masthead may attract all music magazine reader's attention and further more the indie genre fans as they have a closer look at the magazine, but also people who aren't the typical indie fan but are now interested as they have picked up and genre they may not usually look at due to the more broad and wide masthead.

My final choices for a masthead is either INDI or Unique, as I think these are the two names that best sum up what the magazine is mainly about and the type of music, artists and features that will be included.

These are some potential fonts I have selected for the masthead of my magazine. The fonts with the star next to them are the ones I think I am most likely to use. I like the started fonts most as I think the sleek and quite elegant look is more suitable for the typical appearance of an indie music magazine, however although these fonts aren't overpowering and extremely thick or bold, they still make the impact I want them to.