In many ways, the title influences the font...is the title more than found characters? I always think of the magazine Mademoiselle, which is a long title by anyone's standards and it was a condensed Futura in its later years. My own feeling about magazine logos is that they should not have too much character; they have typically been simple because of newsstands. A recent resign I did I went back to News Gothic because it was strong, readable and just seemed right. I would also recommend House Industries Chalet (Tokyo) http://www.houseind.com/fonts/chalet as a font that has character and is not overused.

David, you should get the cover designed by a graphic designer, someone with strong ideas of what a cover should look like, which will inform their choice of type/lettering. Picking a typeface that you hope will be trendy is not cover design.

As always I recommend the often underestimated and undervalued Locator family from ProcessType.

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Bert Vanderveen BNO

I think Nick Shinn said it well. Find a designer (shameless self promotion).

Without knowing much, I think I'd lean toward a very new, very fresh serif or slab serif face. I really like Skolar and Apex Serif.

Best of luck!

evan

The design is the issue first, not the typeface. This requires a process of development and a skilled practitioner to perform. Don't get a font first and then saddle a designer with it. Hire a professional--you may even have a design school and design faculty on your campus to help you.

ChrisL

As long as we are all self-promoting http://randydunbar.com/

Thanks so much for your support guys. Sorry I failed to mention that we have a team of very talented designers--I was just hoping you guys would be able to spark some ideas into our head that we could begin to work with.

-- David