![]() but on looking at actual newsprint, they tend to put pictures in a few columns into the piece, so I did the same, and split the page, as though another article appears below it. My first thought was to insert the picture at the beginning of the article. Here’s the first variation in progress, you can see I’ve just imported 500 words, which leaves a great deal of empty space on the page! I feel that it works best to use the same font family, and simply vary the size and weight. I’ve used 5 columns, and stuck to serif typeface only. I chose to make mine the size of the local paper, simply because 500 words fits on it with loads to spare. I looked at various newspapers, and they seem to have quite a lot of similarity in style. ![]() (Obviously the emphasis here is really on typography, but its fun to include images!) Also, maybe the colour evokes something like a tax form?!! Which is as about as excited as I get about anti-virus computer software – maybe I went a bit too boring!Īs this page is for a book review, I re-used one of the covers I made for a previous unit. On reflection, I think I’ve made the drop caps a bit weedy – I used the same font size as the sub-heading, but on looking at this with a fresh eye, I think it could be larger. I adjusted the kerning between the “f” and the “t” in the header, and the leading in the body copy.įinally, here’s Calibri again, but extended throughout the article except for the final section at the bottom, which is Cambria (which seems quite clear to read in italics) I also decided to justify the text this time, as an alternative option. Futura doesn’t seem particularly well suited to the large body of text, but it was interesting to see that for myself. This is Futura with Baskerville for the final section below the table. As you can see, I separated the paragraphs with a line break, and included a table with a score for each product. I really think the whole article works best in a plain sans-serif font but I experimented a bit along the way. I chose to go fairly minimalist, and mock up a double page spread on (fictional) anti-virus software. As you might guess, the photoshop ones are reasonaby colourful, but the web design ones tend to be quite pared down and no-nonsense! I looked through several photoshop and web design magazines for reference with this brief. Despite the mix of serif and sans-serif, because Hobo is curvy, I think this isn’t such a good pairing. (Cordia fits in a higher word count than the other body copy fonts)) You can see that I’ve chosen sans-serif 12pt fonts for each one, as I think they all contrast OK with the headers.įor comparsion, here’s Hobo and Asperjita, which is a serif font. Next is Gungshu and Arial (12pt)…slightly more tasteful colours this time.Īnd Cooper Std with Cordia (12 pts). I quite like the leading tight, each row of letters look like they are sitting on each other. Here’s Hobo and Calibri (12pt) I named my fake magazine TV Crazy. This was fairly straight forward, as I just drew around her with the pen tool, and set the text wrap accordingly. I then had to think about font parings, and wrap the text around “Shelia”. This looks a bit typewritten, which I think suits the style of a “confession”!Īnd Hobo… its chunky, curvy, and not too serious. I chose it as its a bit playful and chunky!Īnd Gunshuh. It would be great if “Shelia” looked a bit less clean cut, and maybe a bit older too… I can’t help but imagine big hair and a nice bit of red lippy! I also thought it would be fun to include an image, which isn’t easy when it comes to getting permission, but I did find this one. It would have been very helpful to ask someone to proof read. NOTE – It really makes me cringe that I have mis-spelt her name throughout!!! Unfortunately I didn’t spot this until my tutor pointed it out. I used my font management tool to browse different font options, with the relevant text typed in. We were asked to mock up a page, and give 3 different font pairings for each magazine page. Depending on the price point, they are either very busy and colourful, or slightly calmer (eg The Radio Times) Here’s the budget tv listings magazines, shown on a previous post.
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