Final Masthead Planning

For my final masthead font, I have chosen number 1, from my previous post. I chose this font because it can apply to a range of people, male and female, as well as being very simple with a rough edge to it, with it looking as though it's being drawn.
Below is an edited version of it, in which I have removed the background, and added a drop shadow.

Here, the shadow very subtly makes it look very professional, and slightly separates it from the rest of the page, making it obvious, and intriguing. 

I have also experimented with some other colours for my masthead, as I wanted to see what it would look like, however still keeping neutral colours such as grey, so that it wouldn't be too overpowering on my front page.

From this experimenting, I have decided to keep my masthead black, although the other colours do look nice. I have chosen this because I want to keep my magazine looking simple and consistent, and black is a very easy colour to keep using throughout my magazine, that also looks professional. As well as this, I do think that it looks better black than coloured, and it looks very original, as opposed to slightly unprofessional.