Front Cover

Typography

Typography - The typography of a Magazine is the colour of the Masthead that is on the front cover of the Magazine, the colours that are in the title are representing the genre of the Magazine and what it contains inside the Magazine. The main colours that are used in a title are Red, black and yellow. Each of these are colours that are on the Magazines stand out from the back ground and the main image. The colours are the first things that any reader will see, the colours attract the reader so that they look at it. These colours are mainly used in titles but they can also be used in the main image and other paragraphs.

In all of these front covers, the two colours that really stand out is red and yellow, the colour used mostly is red. In the lesson today we focused on the layout of the magazine and how it is structured. I looked at 10 different magazines and the colours had the same idea, using either red and yellow. Red and yellow have a distinct look to them, they make the audience/ reader have some sort of attraction to the magazine and then seem interested by it, simply by the colours.

In each magazine the main image is relevant to the font, it suggest what colour the masthead is going to be or the simple sub heading and little bits of information.. In some magazines if the masthead is gold then the most important things on the magazine with be gold, such a information, buzz lines etc. The person the main image is mainly looking straight at the reader it is a direct address to the audience, making them involved within the magazine.

For my magazine I will possible use the colour red or yellow, but I have to think about the picture I am using to apply the colours.