I found this dust jacket from a book all about cooking with Spam, which, funnily enough, was being thrown out. I HATE Spam, but I love the graphics, the colours and fonts they use - and lo and behold, who'd have thunk it, Spam became a bit of a guiding light...
It reminded me hugely of a very 80's, graphic style that, probably through osmosis, I really love. Strong primary colours, rainbows, huge curved lettering - I decided to see what I could find on the Internet that might satisfy my nostalgia or further spur me on...
...and that's when it dawned on me: everything I loved in the 80's came from America (including Cricket Magazine!). I'm not at ALL sure what effect this knowledge is going to have, but I DO know that I want my Magazine to be inclusive and certainly not leaning towards a specific country in an era that has been and gone! So I am reassuring myself that I will only borrow aspects of the bits I like...
I went online to have a look at what fonts were out there and found a cornucopia of free fonts - having had no real need for extra-curricular fonts before, I had no idea that they were out there - I've been missing out! Here are just some of my favourites that I'd like to use for the Magazine:
As you can probably tell from this Blog's header, I've pretty much made my decision. I love the geometric, angular, in-your-face qualities of this font:
I like how the OLO looks like a nose and glasses - that's something I need to look at for a logo or continuous little cartoon character that pops up throughout the Magazine.
I also love how the A's look like Mountains. It still has that 80's vibe about it but more in a way that some of the best bits of 80's graphics and design have come back into the current mainstream. I really think it works and I'm pretty excited about it!
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