Which font looks best for The Some Times?
I'm starting a physical zine in 2023, a spiritual successor to the Weekly World News parody tabloid. I'm calling it The Some Times after it's release schedule (cause it's not daily, it's not weekly, it's sometimes, whenever I get around to it). I'm designing the logo, and I can't decide whether I want the masthead to have a formal Germanic font like The New York Times, or a modern sans serif like redtop British rags (The Sun, Daily Star, Daily Mirror, Daily Record, etc.)
Old English Text MT:
Fraktur:
Arial Black:
Franklin Gothic Heavy:
Impact:
Segoe UI Black:
If I do with the redtop logo, I like Arial and Impact. I dunno, I'm not a graphic designer. What do you guys think?
The project is evolving day by day. Yesterday I was convinced I wanted it to be straight up satire, nothing but junk stories like Bigfoot Stole my Husband or Conjoined Twins Run for Office Against Each Other, and I do definitely want to include that as a part of it, but I think there needs to be more to the whole zine than just comedy sensationalism. I want it to be a biting satirical publication with a backbone of sincerity. I want there to be a variety of articles and columns for different topics, some serious, some parody, all comedic in tone. Maybe something like a less tongue-in-cheek version of The Onion.
I'm doing this mostly for me, just so I can have a physical piece of media containing my own work with my own name on it, even if nobody else ever reads it. I would like to have a mail list so I can actually send it off to subscribers like the newsletters and magazines of my youth, but I'm taking it one step at a time; zines aren't born overnight, and audiences don't just appear out of nowhere. I would need to cultivate a readership, which means expanding beyond this blog and trying to reach people on other platforms or in the real world; you guys seem to like my inane ramblings, so maybe others will too.
I don't want to get ahead of myself with delusions of grandeur; I need to scale things back and just focus on creating the first issue before I start thinking about distribution. I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.
