Developing a Title

One of the most significant assets of a magazine is the title. This is mainly due to the fact that this is the most conspicuous feature of a magazine as it is on the cover; it represents and connotes what the magazine is about and also attracts the reader/consumer. Taking this detail into account, I decided to thoroughly think about what would be the best name for my magazine. After some time contemplating on the concept, I finally came to the conclusion that my magazine would be called ‘The Matrix’. I selected this name because it was a very fitting name for the genre of my magazine – Computers and Technology – as the magazine covers topics that are computer related and the word “Matrix” generally connotes this subject. I came up with this title while playing around with Command Prompt, also known by its executable name: cmd.exe, and Notepad. Command Prompt is the Microsoft-supplied command-line interpreter which can be used in almost limitless ways. During a specific session, I discovered that I could use Notepad to create lines of code that could be saved and executed to produce various effects in Command Prompt. After this espial, I then attempted to make a code that would create a Matrix-like code falling effect. Once I had succeeded, I figured out that the word “Matrix” would add considerable meaning to my magazine as a whole. As for the house style and font of this title, I chose to stay neutral with the design and have it be plain and simple. For the font of the title, I settled on a bold, rounded font called ‘FIFA Welcome’ (this can be found on sites such as Dafont.com) and for the colour, I chose a gradient colour which was white fading to grey (from the edge, towards the middle) and I also added a Pillow Emboss style to give it a more outstanding shape and appearance.

Below is an image of the title, with all the effects added to it, to test how it would appear on the actual design of the cover of my magazine.