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This blog is a continuation of my Preliminary Tasks- Table of Contents.
Here I will be presenting my analysis on the creation of my table of contents. I will be explaining why I chose certain colors or fonts, what the table of contents consists of, and why chose certain graphics.
This is the before and after:
Before:
Like I previously mentioned in my last blog, I used a template in the same set as my cover page ,from Canva, for my table of contents. I appreciated the retro/2000s style it gives off because it caters to the demographic I am hoping to reach, which is a younger audience. It has the same colors as my cover page however the fonts are different. I figured that by using the same colors and template set, my magazine would be seen as cohesive and it would have the flow of a good, trendy magazine.
If you haven’t noticed by now, I have been trying to allude to a kind of Dr.Seuss aesthetic. I try to allude to Dr.Seuss at least once in each page of my magazine. This is to add a piece of myself into this magazine since I can’t disclose any personal information.
I have always enjoyed the drawings and fonts from his books, it gives me a sort of comfort because it reminds me of my childhood.
So, in my cover page, the title alludes to Dr. Seuss “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”—my title page is “The Places She’ll Go”. “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” is about what life is, what you can expect when you get older, and how to move through life’s biggest changes. “The Places She’ll Go” is about a girl who experiences a whole different lifestyle and realizes that her mentality from living in Ecuador has put her on a flight or fight mode her whole life, now she is thinking about a change.
The effect I wanted my table of contents to have instantly is organized chaos. This might seem dramatic but what I mean is everything is in its place but it’s fun to look at. The colors, graphics, font type, box organization. If you look at the original template, you can see that each box has a number and it would end up looking simplistic. Which is good but my magazine is supposed to look retro and fun to look at but not too professional because a younger audience wouldn’t be attracted to that.
I chose a different font for the title than the original version because I felt like it would look more organized since there was already so much going on.
I based the page numbers off of the amount of pages my magazine is allowed to have (4 page magazine) and how many of those pages I could write on (6 pages, front and back). For example, the section titled “All About Me”, will have a full two page spread dedicated to it. However, the section titled “ Back to the Past” will have one page dedicated to it because that is how much I believe it would take.
The font I used for the title and the explanations for each section is Kitsch Display. It’s a clean and simplistic. I decided to add some type of cleanliness to my table of contents because I wanted people to focus on the most important parts and not be too distracted by a funky kind of font. The font I used—Tallow Regular— for the banner next to the “All About Me” section contributes to the Dr.Seuss theme I am trying to add in every page of my magazine. This font is more of a cartoonish and Dr.Seuss type of font. I figured it would compliment the banner that looks very Dr.Seuss-like and contribute to the theme I am going for. The font I used for the page numbers and section titles is the original font—fraunces— used in the original template for my table of contents. I kept it so it could give a sense of familiarity of my cover page and to separate the numbers and section title from the section explanations. Each font is to separate the roles of all the elements in my table of
Each graphic is next to a section of the magazine and it hints to what it will be about. For the section “ All About Me”, I put a banner, which alludes to the drawings Dr.Seuss creates and I added the name of my main subject, “Luggina”. For the section “A New Experience”, I put a graphic of the place my main subject will have that new experience in. In this case, it’s Florida, however I searched for the most retro looking Florida graphic to compliment the style I’m going for. For the section “ Realization”, the graphic I put symbolizes two things, first is the main subject realizing that she prefers the place her “new experience” resides in, she sees it as a better home then her home is Ecuador. The second is the inner conflict inside my main subject about where her real home is, Florida?, or Ecuador? The graphic of a house represents her conflict and confusion of where her actual home is and where she wants to be after that new experience. For the section “ Back to the Past”, I put the most aesthetically pleasing stamp of Ecuador to show that no matter what, her final decision has to be going back to Ecuador because that is where her life is established.
*graphics from Canva
*templates from Canva
That’s all for today!
See you in my next set of my Preliminary blogs!
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