what are some commonly used font designs in magazine cover design?
Our common fonts for magazine cover design are Song Style, Bold Style, Regular Script, Running Script, Cursive Script, Official Script, Art Style, etc. According to the magazine's own positioning, the use of font design is different.
1. Song Ti
Song Ti is the most commonly used font. The basic strokes of Song Ti include dot, horizontal, vertical, skimming, pressing, tick, picking and folding, etc. Its structure is full, dignified and elegant, neat and beautiful. Song typeface is not only suitable for printing and engraving, but also suitable for people's basic reading needs? Therefore, it has been used ever since.
Song Ti is most frequently used in the font design of the masthead of financial magazines and least used in the font design of the masthead of educational magazines.
2. Black body
Black body is characterized by uniform thickness of strokes in horizontal and vertical directions, no decorative features of song style, rigorous structure, vigorous brushwork, solemnity, seriousness and modernity. The series of bold characters usually include: extra thick black, thick black, big black, medium black, thin black, medium line, thin line and so on. Among them, extra thick black, thick black, big black and medium black are suitable for arranging titles, and thin black, medium line and thin line are suitable for arranging text.
Bold font is most frequently used in the font design of masthead of educational magazines, but least used in the font design of masthead of cultural magazines.
3. Regular script
Regular script is a font standardized in regular script technology, which is similar to handwriting, smooth, harmonious and full of charm. Usually used in text and explanatory text.
italics are most frequently used in the design of masthead fonts of news magazines, and least used in the design of masthead fonts of entertainment, women and emotional magazines.
4. Running script
Running script is a kind of writing style between block script and cursive script. The writing is more unrestrained and flowing, which is close to the cursive script. The writing is relatively correct and stable, which is close to that of regular script. Running script, a kind of subtle movement, often leaves a trace of mutual involvement between dots and pictures and between words, which is as delicate as gossamer.
Running script is most frequently used in the font design of mastheads of cultural magazines, but least used in the font design of mastheads of financial magazines.
5. cursive script
cursive script is a simple and simple style with omitted strokes. Taking stippling as the basic symbol to replace a certain part of radicals and characters is the most symbolic style. The strokes of cursive script echo each other, which is convenient for writing quickly and expressing the feelings of the writer.
cursive script is most frequently used in the font design of news magazines, and least used in the font design of music, entertainment, women and emotional magazines.