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Thursday, 4 January 2018

WEBSITE: Font Research

Before I decide on a font for my website and digipak, I have done some research into existing fonts for electropop artists and some artists from other genres. 

Charli XCX (electropop):





Tokio Myers (pop, electronic, classical): 




Astrid S (electropop):





Post Malone (hip hop):



MØ (electropop):










Mabel (electropop):






After looking at these I have decided that my favourite art the fonts for Charli XCX, Post Malone and Mabel. I think they are quite groovy, electro, techno, disco looking. This has now told me what kind of fonts to start looking for on dafont.com, a website I have used many times for AS Media Studies. 

I have now looked through a lot of the fonts under the category: 'Techno/Sci-Fi' and in 'Retro'. I took screenshots of all these fonts I found and liked:
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Logotronik












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Univox












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Plexifont BV












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Dylovastuff












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Yummy!












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Bisurk












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Slurp













Once I downloaded all these fonts, I uploaded them onto wix.com so that I can use the fonts on wix.com while editing my website. I applied each font to the title 'ASTRID S' sometimes like 'ASTRID_S' to see what all the fonts would look like on my website:
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Yummy!

Incopins Clusters



Dylovastuff




Bisurk




Logotronik




Slurp


Plexifont BV



I would say my personal favourite out of all these fonts is the last one 'Plexifont BV'. I think it looks the most unusual, striking and cool. I think the 4th one is too light and thin. My two least favourites are the 2nd and 3rd ones. I think they are kind of boring and not the right style I'm looking for. However, now, I am going to do some audience research, I'm going to ask many people which fonts they like best out of these through a Facebook survey which all my Facebook friends can see.

I searched on google how to create a survey through Facebook and I found this link which told me what to do. 

Here is the process I took:
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Then, you can look at the results for your survey:















The results from the survey revealed to me that the bold, bigger fonts seemed to be the most well-liked and favoured, e.g. the 'logotronik' font, the 'dylovastuff' font, the 'incopins clusters' font and the 'yummy' font. I also discovered this not only from the survey, but also from a facebook chat group I made where I asked my friends on Facebook what they thought of all the 7 fonts. They told me that they thought the rest were too thin and hard to read and see:
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The results narrowed my choices down to the bold fonts. I looked through them all again and decided that actually I didn't like any of them. This meant I would have to do more research and find another font which is bold and striking. Then I remembered, I REALLY like the existing font for the album title of Post Malone's album 'Stoney':
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I spent loads of time trying to find this font online somewhere to download and eventually I found a very similar font like this and where to download it from. I found it on dafont.com. It was called 'Planet Kosmos'. 




'Planet Kosmos' font










AUDIENCE FEEDBACK 2: Artist Logo Font

I searched on google how to create a audience survey through Facebook and I found this link which told me what to do. I created a survey which asked people which of 7 fonts would look best for an electropop artist logo on a website. 

Here is the process I took:
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Then, you can look at the results for your survey:














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