Magazine Name

From my previous post about choosing a magazine name, I have narrowed them down to my two favourites from the list; Fugue, and Numb.

I have used www.dafont.com to produce these two names in different fonts as an experimental post:

In my opinion, Fugue sounds more like a music magazine name as I have taken it from a Foal's song on their album Total Life Forever. Also the two web definitions I found:

A contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts

A state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy

Fonts of Existing Magazines

I have looked at various music magazines to see some fonts used in existing magazines; I prefer simple, bold, fonts as they stand out more than anything complicated. I like the NME logo as it is small and in capital letters, magazine names often have all capital letters, for example: 

All of the images of logos above have a similar colour scheme of black, red, and white, these are three bold colours that stand out well on most backgrounds of a front cover of a music magazine. I have picked out examples where these logos are used on the front of their magazines:

Each magazine has the title at the top of the page, this is the most popular positioning of a title as when it is placed on a magazine rack the title is the mot visible section of the magazine. NME, Vibe, and Kerrang! magazines in this example have the main cover image overlapping the title itself; this layout works because the magazines are famous.

I chose to research music magazines only as there is a big difference between the covers of music magazines and fashion or men's magazines etc. - mainly because they always feature existing artists or bands.