Fonts for Album Cover

www.dafont.com is a great website for looking at fonts that we could use. There are hundreds to choose from. 


When thinking about what sort of font we would like to use, my group and I all decided that we wants a simple, block capital font, which is what you find on a lot of R&B albums.


Here are some examples of R&B albums that have the same sort of fonts and pictures that we were inspired by:

This is the album cover for Lupe Fiasco. The writing is bold, large and in white in front of a black background. It is very simple, but it is also eye grabbing. The picture is also very simple, just him in the shot, not posing too much. 

This is another album cover, this time of Jamie Foxx. The artist is in front of a busy nightlife, which is common in a lot of R&B album covers. We discovered through our research that a lot of reoccurring themes is that the artists are surrounded by materialistic things, such as nice cars, nice watches, nice clothes and nice environments to be around. The font is very simple yet again, and in white which is same as the one above. 

This is the album cover for R.Kelly. Again, the font is very simple and so is the picture on the front. It is just of the artist, although he isn't making any connection with the artist as he has sunglasses on and isn't looking into the camera. He also looks very mysterious. The writing is very simple and doesn't give much away. This is very common on R&B album covers.