Font design in magazine cover design is becoming more and more important. In addition to being attracted by the beautiful pictures in magazines, people are increasingly attracted by creative cover font designs.

Text is the basis of a magazine. People can understand the information that the magazine wants to express through the text in the magazine.

So fonts are crucial in magazine cover design.

Below, the editor will introduce some commonly used fonts in magazine cover design, hoping to bring you some inspiration.

Our common magazine cover design fonts mainly include Song, Hei, Kai, running script, cursive script, official script, art style, etc.

Depending on the magazine's own positioning, the use of font design will be different.

1. Song style Song style is the most commonly used font. The basic strokes of Song style include dot, horizontal, vertical, left, back, hook, pick, fold, etc. Its structure is full, dignified and elegant, neat and beautiful.

Song font is not only suitable for printing and engraving, but also suitable for people's basic reading needs. Therefore, it has been used to this day.

Song Dynasty is the most frequently used in the masthead font design of financial magazines, and the least used in the masthead font design of educational magazines.

2. Black body. Black body is characterized by consistent thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes, no decorative corners of Song style characters, rigorous structure, powerful writing, solemn, eye-catching, serious and modern.

The bold series usually include: extra thick black, thick black, large black, medium black, thin black, medium line, thin line, etc.

Among them, extra thick black, thick black, large black, and medium black are suitable for arranging titles, while thin black, medium line, and thin lines are suitable for arranging text.

Helvetica is most frequently used in the masthead font design of educational magazines, and least used in the masthead font design of cultural magazines.

3. Regular script Kai script is a font that is technically standardized in regular script. It is similar to handwriting, smooth, harmonious, and full of charm.

Usually used for main text and explanatory text.

Kai style is most frequently used in the masthead font design of news magazines, while it is used least frequently in the masthead font design of entertainment, women's, and emotional magazines.

4. Running script Running script is a calligraphy style between regular script and cursive script.

Those who write more freely and freely, which is closer to cursive script, are called Xingcao; those who write more straightly and steadily, which are closer to regular script, are called Xingkai.

The movement of the brush strokes in running script often leaves traces of interconnection between characters, as thin as a gossamer, between dots and strokes.

Running script is most frequently used in the masthead font design of cultural magazines, and least used in the masthead font design of financial magazines.

5. Cursive script Cursive script is a calligraphy style with omitted strokes and simple structure.

Using stipples as basic symbols to replace radicals and certain parts of characters is the most symbolic calligraphy style.

The strokes of cursive script echo each other, making it easy to write quickly and express the writer's emotions.

Cursive script is most frequently used in the masthead font design of news magazines, and least used in the masthead font design of music, entertainment, women, and emotional magazines.

6. Official script Official script evolved from seal script. The writing style changed from smooth and round to square and slender to a new style of calligraphy with flat structure and waves.

The font shape changes from slender to flat, tightening up and down, stretching left and right, and the strokes change from slow to short, thus showing a lively and diverse style.

Official script is most frequently used in the masthead font design of culture, education, and art magazines, and least used in the masthead font design of women's magazines.

7. Art font Art font is a new type of font, which is a font design using artistic means.

Art fonts are most frequently used in the masthead font design of women's magazines, and least used in the masthead font design of food magazines.

Generally speaking, different types of magazines use different cover fonts. The choice of fonts has a great relationship with the style of the magazine, so you should pay attention to the choice of fonts when designing magazine covers.

Only a well-designed magazine cover can make readers like it more and even bring more sales.