Bon Jovi font-timeline!!!
 

Well,I always thought that artistic approach for the front cover could also determine the potential music direction of an album.

In past Bon Jovi had sort of strong, cool and contemporary enough font that can be easily translated to the music they played in 80's,well all rock bands from the 80's followed sort of the same path...

In 90's,the guys gave us in my opinion the best Bon jovi font in their entire carrier,although it could not be closely related to the sound of albums from that period,the font was more aggressive then the previous one IMO,but the sound wasn't,the change was coming,more mature and deeper lyrics,more adult oriented style in songwriting etc...

The 2000 font was also a big change but in wrong direction,the look was lame and uninteresting,something that you could expect from any pop band or artist,but so was the music,and from that time we had a swarm of pop/rock contemporary stuff released so far,and even new font on the single cover hasn't changed much,only the width is longer...

What do you guys think,does the cover of album determine music style direction,and what is your best BJ font?

Picture below(from left to right 80's,90's,00's)

As much as the 80s era music owns the 90s, when it comes to logo, the 90s logo is the best.

It's a novel idea and it just serves to illustrate that not only has music obviously changed across the decades, marketing material has changed as well. With Bon Jovi, I think even your middle example of the 90s font compared to the 90s sound supports the idea because it is hard-edged and raw. It's bold like the music was but not just superficially bold like the 00s font.

The modern font is completely dull and uninspired. It says quite a lot about the band and the music IMO and also says a lot about how they want their image put across, which is 'safe' and 'mainstream'.

I'm hoping they might be a little more creative with the forthcoming album in both a musical and artistic perspective but I'm not holding my breath and that's OK because since LH, I have kind of accepted that they just don't write like that any more.

The main thing for me now is that they paid more attention to the songs every long-term Jovi fan loves on the last tour. If they keep doing that, it'll keep me interested in the band. :)

I love the 80's font most. And it's true that it's kinda illustration of what's on the record. While 90's font says "heavier", 80's one says "hard & sharp". And I love the rhombus in the middle.

I agree!
The 90s looked best IMO. I never thought about but as you said it really illustrates the music :o
Current one you can make with every MS Word :)

90`s font rocks!!, 00`s font sucks!!

You could have left the word font out there

Ja ja ja ja, the 00`s doesn´t sucks at all, they have good and poor songs on this decade

Definitely has to be late 80s early 90s. Like the NJ and KTF covers, it just oozes power!

90's was better though :p