Magazine Typography Moodboard

This is an image moodboard that I have created featuring different fonts used on music magazines for their mastheads.

I've found that the majority of the masthead fonts can help to identify to audiences what type of magazine they belong to. For example, 'Kerrang!' instantly suggests that the magazine has something to do with rock/ metal music because of the cracks in the text as it's seen as quite a ruthless genre of music. Additionally, the font is relatively simple, black, bold, san- serif and the letters are all connected; this helps to identify what type of music magazine it is because rock/ metal is usually associated with the colour black.
The 'Blue's & Soul' masthead gives away what genre of music the magazine is based on just from the name of it, however, the choice of feature colours have also contributed to it being easily recognised. The shades of yellow and purple give an older feel to it, helping to suggest a genre of music which had been extremely popular in past years.


Fonts and colours used for these mastheads meet the target audiences successfully. For example, the 'Billboard' masthead is more colourful than some other magazines because of the red, yellow and blue inside a few letters of the word. This will grab the target audience easily (most likely teenagers) as it gives off a more mature vibe than a children's pop magazine would due to the plain san- serif text and primary colours.