Typography

One of the main things that is really important for a CD Cover is the typography used on it. We are presenting Justice and we need to find something that suits their style of music, personality and character. The typeface Starburst is a suitable font for Justice's their cover. The only problem is that we decided to cut out the text on/in the cover so you can see the CD. This font is very hard to cut out:

Fonts like Times New Roman, Helvetica, Comic Sans MS, Tahoma, Arial and Trebuchet are seen as standard fonts which are mainly used for magazines, websites, newspapers, etc. We are convinced that Justice isn't standard at all, which means that the fonts names above wouldn't suit them. We are looking for something more appropriate for Justice and their music style.


A very good website that shows a lot of different fonts is fontspace.com. This website enables you to download special fonts, you can also search for special fonts that are tagged with a certain name, such as 'Rock', or 'Metal', but also '1950s/60s/70s/80s' etc. We found the font Sylar Stencil on this site by searching for electronic typefaces.

This typeface is very easy to cut out, which is still a part of our original plan, unless we find a typeface that is absolutely fantastic but can't be cut out. The typeface isn't feminine or elegant at all. Because Justice exists out of two men it is obvious that elegantness wouldn't suit them.

We think that this typeface does suit Justice, but we feel it isn't complete. It still has got some feminine aspects as the font is quite round. There is no elegantness as the letters are divided by lines going straight through the letters. It is all about the way someone interpret it though, someone might see it as just simple lines dividing the letters, while someone else might see it as lines of light breaking the letters up. The setting where electronic/dance music is played uses lights as well, which means that this typeface and the setting are connected and linked back to each other. Or in other words, this typeface could suit Justice very well.

This typeface is easy to cut out and it does suit Justice in a way, because it is different and not standard. It does reminds us of a space shuttle and astronauts, this is mainly because of the S. We want something more electronic, something that shouts; dance/electronic music. It has to be a typeface that informs you about the genre of the music without even knowing the band or artist.


Even though this typeface is called Space Case it looks less alienated than Teacher A. It looks as if this typeface has been designed using squares as the letters are perfectly aligned. Even though they seem square, the letters themselves are a bit feminine as they are round in the corners.

This typeface makes me think of parties such as Sensation White and/or Black. These parties are the extreme versions of a typically Dutch party, and are mainly associated with drugs like XTC to give a greater experience. We don't want to associate Justice with drugs as that isn't our aim. It also contains a different music genre; house and trance even though famous DJ's have played on these parties: Andre Tanneberger, Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Erick E, Ferry Corsten, Tiesto, etc.

It is very hard to find a suitable typeface. Therefore we have to be less critical about things. We preferably want something that portrays the genre of the music as well. In the end it doesn't really matter if the typeface does or doesn't portray this. Extra aspects such as light use (lines through the typeface) can be added later by ourselves. After experimenting with Illustrator while looking at typefaces, we came up with the typeface Bauhaus 93.

This typeface is special, not standard at all and it doesn't only suit Justice, if feels right as well. This typeface is published by Microsoft Typography in 1993 which means it isn't a new typeface, but not an unbelievably old one either. It is a sans serif typeface, this doesn't combine with the t-shirt we ordered; a black t-shirt with gold letters on it saying DVNO. The letters on the t-shirt are serif and bold. Bauhaus 93 is bold as well but not as musculin as the typeface on the t-shirt. Unfortunately we couldn't choose which typeface there would be on the t-shirt. Therefore we have to stick a bit to the serif idea, which means we could either find a typeface that looks like it, or design one ourselves. Illustrator is great program to use, or in other words, we have to start experimenting with typefaces now.