Front Cover MastheadSHARNEL MEHMI

In Adobe Illustrator CC, I had selected 8 fonts which I had seen as appropriate to use for the masthead of my front cover, these fonts consist of:

Old English Text MT

Algerian

Baskerville Old Face

Book Antiqua

Castellar

Colonna MT

Goudy Old Style

Imprint MT Shadow

After asking and receiving feedback from my peers, the font for my masthead which I had decided to use for my front cover is Castellar as 60% of the 20 people I had asked for feedback from had chose this font as “it is simple but still shows that it belongs to a Masquerade theme”. Peer Font

1 Castellar

2 Imprint MT Shadow

3 Castellar

4 Goudy Old Style

5 Castellar

6 Algerian

7 Old English Text MT

8 Castellar

9 Castellar

10 Book Antiqua

11 Castellar

12 Baskerville Old Face

13 Castellar

14 Algerian

15 Castellar

Peer Font

16 Castellar

17 Imprint MT Shadow

18 Castellar

19 Castellar

20 Castellar

As I wanted to add a gradient to my masthead, I had changed the image to an object

As I wanted to add a gradient to my masthead I had expanded the text so that it became an image.

To add the gradient I had clicked on the colour swatch whilst the text was selected and I had clicked the ‘orange, yellow’ gradient.

After I had clicked the gradient I had adjusted the colours and the way in which I wanted the gradient to appear until the masthead had looked the way in which I wanted it to.

After I finished adjusting the gradient of my masthead I had placed it on my front cover. To the right is how the masthead looked when first placed on the cover.