Our Font Research

This is an annotation of fonts that me and Pheobe have researched and came up with this information. The example is comic sans font as people used to use comic sans everywhere but now it is known to be a childish font and not formal and serious. This showed us that fonts can look cheap or not appropraite, for example if it was a emergency exit you wouldn't you comic sans as you would refer that to a kidish font or a jokey font, this taught us that fonts give out an impression and it is very important to get them right for whatever you are trying to show or sell.

This is my first draft of my front cover of my Local newspaper The Enfield Holla.  Phoebe and I still have to choose our final mast head and date setting etc but this is my draft for an idea of how i would set it out.

Some ideas for font for our main heading

This is some of our ideas for our main heading font, we are contemplating on using the stencil font for "Holla" and a more normal font for the "the Enfield" the reason we chose the stencil font for the holla is because its very impact, although it comes accross like a military kind of font but it still attracts the eye beacause its very bold, we are looking in to all difrent types of font serif/sans serif etc.

Riots article

A article about youth realising politics and taxes, etc when they get a job. Similar story to my front cover article.

Our flat plans

Our ideas for our newspaper

We have chosen our Newspaper name to be called "The enfield Holla". Holla is a slang word which means "get at me" or "ring/text etc me later", we thought this may attract to the younger generations eye because more than likely this would only be understood by the younger age group. We aim to make our local newspaper a young friendly , hip but informing newspaper.


This is our idea for our newspaper, our front page article will be on the London riots in enfield 2011 that was caused by Mark Dugans death. We are going to ring a Prison in London and ask if we could have permission to talk to a convict of the riots to find out their perspective into why it all started off and why it was linked to Mark Dugans death, or did it get out of hand and become an excuse for the young teens of london to lout shops and cause chaos.


We will also have a celeb spotting area on the 2nd page, were we will get Fazer (a london grime artist) from the NDUBZ band to pose for our newspaper as we know this would be a big hit for the younger audience.

Te difference of tabloid newspapers and broadsheet newspapers

I have chosen a broadsheet and tabloid newspaper (The Sun and The Guardian) to explain the differences between them. The Guardian would be known as a broadsheet which is very formal, intelectual, theres more text and the articles are always longer, there's also more of them and generally The Guardian has a very contempary feel to it. Where as the The Sun newspaper is more known as a tabloid newspaper which is famous for its plain font, their language is always a bit crude, has a jokey feel to it, people may classify it as a lower class newspaper and a newspaper that builders and taxi drivers etc read as its famous for their page 3 models another things that is commonly used in The Sun would be the slang laguage and their use of puns. 

The information on fonts for newspapers

What is more, in all but the dullest magazine designs, text has to work in conjunction with other graphic elements, particularly photographs or illustrations and also colour on page.


Obviously, font size has an important part to play in page design, with larger text catching the readers eye more quickly than small text, and setting different type sizes will build up its own logic of how to read the page.


Captions, for example, will typically be in smaller font size than body text, yet by placing them in bold the readers eye will be drawn to them more quickly. Similarly, use of italics is the most common way to emphaisise text, but sometimes the use of different face such as small caps can have a more dramatic impact.


Even worse is the tendency to mix a large number of typefaces on a page-a particularly heinous crime if it is done within body text. At best, a designer will restrict him or herself to three or four different typefaces to clearly mark out separate design elements, such as headings, subheadings, captions and bosy text.

Local Newspaper (textual analysis)

This article has been anchored with an image on the font cover because its a story that the newspaper editors will think intrigue the audience and make them want to read on. The language is short and snappy so that the narrative of the article is obvious to the readers that are skimming the newspaper. This local newspaper i have analysed by using pointers to explain everything on the newspaper.

My analysis of the Dartford Messenger