Font

For my practical production, I will need to decide on a font. Often, fonts are broken down into two catogories; serif and sans serif. For instance...



Sans-serif (Arial)

 




Serif (Century Schoolbook)

'Sans' is a French word meaning 'without', therefore sans-serif means that it is without the little curls or feet. It is generally belived that serif fonts are used to make reading the text more easily, whether that be for a magazine, book or newspaper article. Sans-serif are usually used on a website so it strains the eyes less. For my production, I am hoping to use a combination of these, I will be most likely to use serif more often, perhaps for articles, and then maybe sans serif for adverts. For the masthead I'm hoping to use a fairly unique font (perhaps taken from dafont.com) in order to make my publication stand out a bit more, despite conventions, as I feel this would attract more readers. Additionally, I may want to create a more individual newspaper rather than being too conventional, of course I'm still generating ideas and may change this.

My chosen fonts are: Futura
                                  Georgia
                                  Geneva