Font Testing

Arial Black – Arial Black is an easy to read, bold font. This font would be ideal to use for a heading. The lettering does not curve at any point and so enables readers with eye sight problems to read with very little difficulty.

Gabriola – This font appears very small, at size 11. However if you make the writing bigger the writing becomes clearer to the reader. This would be a good font to use for an elegant heading, which allows the reader to compare the lettering to the Story. A bad example of a heading that this lettering should not be used for would be something very dangerous and inelegant. A good example of a story that could be comparing lettering may have something to do with the royal family, as I picture this lettering to be very elegant and royal. As you can see the numbers that are written in this font are not distinguishable from the letters eg 11, 10, 13 and they appear in very small sizes.

Impact- This font is very bold. However the way in which the letters are squashed together may have an impact on the visibility for readers who may have visual problems. I feel that this font would be ideal to use as a title font, because it is bold, but I feel that using the font at a smaller size will be difficult to read. I think that this font will attract the reader’s attention to the magazine, as the text will be larger.

Batang- I think this font is easily visible and will not be hard to read for people who of which are visually impaired. This is because the font is produced with huge gaps between each word. I feel that this would not be a good font to use, as it would take up a lot of the space on the magazine. However it is easy to see words apart, which is useful to the visually impaired. I may use this font in my magazine as I am aware that in larger paragraphs the writing is easily distinguished.

MV Boli- This text is slanted which gives a hand written effect. This font would be useful for sections in which there are interviews taking place, so that the reader can distinguish the opinions of the interviewer and the interviewee. This font is easy to read, however it is not very bold. This would make it unsuitable for the headings/ front cover title. Again the spaces between the words allows the reader to tell different words apart, which again would be useful to the visually impaired, as I am aware of a few students who suffer for visual impairment. Perhaps if I increased the size and the boldness of the font, I would be able to use it for headings.

DilleniaUPC – This font is not easily visible, to those who have full sight and those who are visually impaired. I do not feel this font would be suitable for use in a magazine because of this. As with the other fonts I feel if I were to Bold the font it will be easier to see, therefore I could use it in my magazine.