27 Sept 2016

PRELIM TASK: Masthead Font Ideas

For the masthead, I wanted to carefully pick out a very particular font that will relate to the title 'Fine Line'. I used the website dafont.com to help me out as I know I can select different styles of fonts and choose from the huge variety they have there. 




I searched through the 'Brush' section under 'Script' and picked out these five fonts (top to bottom)
1. Beyond The Mountains
2. KG Life Is Messy
3. Guld Script
4. Airways
5. Southern Aire

This gave me something to start with so I could not use anything too rough or gritty looking like dry brush strokes since fine liners are very smooth, crossing off 'KG Life Is Messy'. 'Beyond The Mountains' looks too thick to be written by a fine liner so I marked that one off too. Also, since people not only draw, but write with fine liners I thought of choosing a font that looked handwritten yet was easy to read therefore no long tails or decorative lines around it. I wanted the font to have a elegant feel so I also decided not to use 'Airways'. 

I finally decided to choose the last font, 'Southern Aire', for its classic, handwritten finish to match the photograph and the rest of the text.

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