Researching fonts for the Digipak: artist research.

  

 I researched some quite iconic and well known album covers to see what fonts are common/look unique and stylish.

The first one I looked at is Patti Smith's iconic album cover for 'Horses'. She uses just a simple black and white image of herself, with her same written small in the corner. I really like this font as is is classy and understated and fits in with the vibe of the album cover image and also the cool punk 'I don't care' vibe.

The next one I looked at was Chance the Rappers 'Acid Rap' album cover. The melting letters fit with the 'trippy' artwork for the cover, also with the name of the album, which has links with the hallucinogenic substance LSD, also the 'acid' could have melted the letters.

Jay-Z, for his album 'Reasonable Doubt' went for the 'old style gangsta' vibe and used a font that matched that perfectly. This is probably not something that I would do for my Digipak, as it does not fit in with the genre conventions, however, I think that is is good to consider and research all aspects of genre within the music industry.

Finally, I looked at Grace Jones' Iconic disco
album 'Nightclubbing', which has a simple powerful image of herself with simple text going along the top. With album cover's, I am uner the impression that 'less is more' and it is possible for it to be more powerful with less going on. However, at the same time album covers such as the one for 'Acid Rap' has a lot going on and it still powerful, engaging and interesting.