The Los Angeles Times uses Belizio for body copy, including infoboxes or subheads within a given story. The Times uses LA Headline for headlines, LA Deck Display for decks, and LA text for other display copy. I consulted with SU… Continue Reading
First and foremost, after reading Professor Strong’s feedback on my previous field note assignments, it has come to my attention that I have been analyzing the wrong magazine. For the sake of consistency, I am going to continue analyzing the… Continue Reading
Wired alternates between a few typefaces that make up the visual identity of the magazine, occasionally, adding novelty fonts to become a distinct visual element of certain spreads. The first typeface I’ll discuss is a unique typeface that is found consistently… Continue Reading
TIME has always used the same consistent fonts and typefaces. The masthead has always been a large, serif font. It is a classic style for the magazine, giving it a sense of familiarity to readers and prominence in magazine racks.… Continue Reading
Essence Magazine uses a font that is in the Tahoma font family but, customize and copy righted solely for their use by designer James A. Miller IV. The folio of the magazine also maintains the same font but, in a… Continue Reading
Typography Harpers Bazaar uses HTF Didot, which is a serif typeface that has become synonymous with the magazine because of how heavily they incorporate it into the magazine. HTF Didot was created in 1991 specifically for Harper’s Bazaar’s redesign and… Continue Reading
Typography is an image that means more than the words it spells. It communicates and grounds a magazine’s identity both visually and verbally, tying together its pages like brand-identity glue. For Vanity Fair, typography is particularly central to its identity.… Continue Reading
Typography is extremely important as a typeface helps complete the image for a magazine. The main typeface for Real Simple is ‘Sharp Grotesk.’ This typeface is sans serif and used for the nameplate and folio. It is also used for all headlines, cutlines… Continue Reading
Featured image by Raphael Schiller from Unsplash.com As a whole, WIRED’s textual aesthetic is sophisticated. I believe WIRED maintains this aesthetic in its typefaces, both serif and sans serif, to counter the unusual content, vivid language and overall fantastical tone contained… Continue Reading
Typography Bon Appétit uses mostly sans serif typefaces. Fonts In Use examined the September 2017 issue and claimed the magazine used Futura. However, that issue stepped outside of the magazine’s typical typographic style, using Futura in interesting ways like depicting… Continue Reading