Finding a Font

I wanted my contents page to have a bold, recognizable font, because it is important that potential readers know that this is where they can look to find out who else is included in the magazine. I tried out a variety of different fonts:

This was the first font that I tried, which I liked because it was bold and blocky and similar to the font I'd used for my masthead. However, I then realized that it was important that I showed a variety of fonts, and so I couldn't use this font.

Then I tried this font:

 








I also tried this font, because again, it was very big and bold, but I thought it was too child-like and cartoon-ish for a music magazine, and so it wouldn't work.

So then I tried this font:

I liked this font, because it was different to the font that I used on my masthead, and it wasn't child-ish like the previous font that I tested. I decided that I wanted to use this font.

I then added some effects to the text to make it match my masthead a little more, including a little bit of a drop shadow and then made the text white and my mast head was completed: