- There are more than one font used on a digipak.
- There tends to be about 2-4 different fonts used across the digipak; one for the artists name, one for the album title, one for track names and one for small print.
- Artist fonts stay the same from product to product- the font alone should be recognisable and relatable to the artist like a logo.
- Album and track fonts often can be visually related to the theme of the album.
With this in mind, I went onto www.dafont.com and looked for appropriate fonts for the digipak.
ARTIST FONTS:
I wanted to use a bold font for the artists font because to a large extent, it is the most important text on an album. This font needed to be unique as well as give the audience some indication what genre the artist belongs. In our case this is the pop genre. It came down to the following two fonts.
I wanted to use a bold font for the artists font because to a large extent, it is the most important text on an album. This font needed to be unique as well as give the audience some indication what genre the artist belongs. In our case this is the pop genre. It came down to the following two fonts.
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| A curvy, bold, flourished font. |
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| A bold, american college type font. |
ALBUM TITLE FONTS:
To match the prison theme of the digipak we decided to look for an appropriately matched font if possible. I found the "Octin Prison Free" font very interesting and when put through the stages of design looked very nice.
TRACK FONTS:
It was executively decided that the track font would be the same as the album title font. This adds a consistency to the product making the album design more authentic.
OTHER FONTS:
There is only one other font proposed to be used on the digipak and in the advert.
This is the Arial font. This font will be used for the special thanks/accreditation on the inlay of the digipak and will be used for the copyright information and small print on the disc and back cover.
This is the Arial font. This font will be used for the special thanks/accreditation on the inlay of the digipak and will be used for the copyright information and small print on the disc and back cover.
