Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Research Into Fonts

Before creating my magazine, I have decided to research the most common fonts used in product design. Through internet resources, I have found that the top seven fonts used with media and design are the following:
·         Helvetica
·         Trajan
·         Garamond
·         Futura
·         Bodoni
·         Bickham Script Pro
·         Frutiger

These fonts are just a few of the fonts used within the media. These fonts are so important as by simply looking at the font you can automatically recognise where it is from. An example of this is Baskerville old face font, this is the font used for Vogue magazine. It is also very important that the consumer can read the font without struggling for example some fonts such as 'Brush Script MT' would work well as a title or sub heading but not when used for large amounts of texts.