Genres of MAGAZINES

There are various kinds of genres for magazines depending on audience it is made for. Audience determines colour schemes and font style of magazine as well as front cover.

Women( Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire)

Teen( Seventeen, Teen Vogue)

News Magazine( Time, Newsweek etc)

Sports

Home and Garden

Fashion Magazine

Lifestyle/Fitness

Gossip Magazine(Star, In Touch)

Most popular based on sales:

Entertainment

Sports

Home and Garden

Money/Finance

News

Food/Cooking

Fashion

Examples:

Colour Palette: This shows a lot of pink colour. This is for girls. Pink symbolizes girls,

Image: If a young star is shown it means that the magazine is to attract young teen girls.

Text: If font is softer, it shows feminism.

Colour Palette: It shows various colours of bright red which symbolizes spices in food. Typical colours of yellow, green and red are shown. They are all bright. It has neatly written text in red.

Image: There is major image of food which is mouth watering and underneath are other images of healthy food.

Text: It is upright and bold. Red attracts immediately.

Colour Palette: The background is dark green in colour symbolizing nature, with grey rabbit in contrast. Yellow and white also show nature.

Image: Rabbit is a very cute animal and symbolizes softness.

Text: Text is not scattered and it is precise. It is in white and yellow.

Colour Palette: Black, white, yellow and red colours are for rock magazine. There is addition of pink one in this to show that rock stars are females. This magazine attracts young people.
Image: The rock stars are made seductive by their looks and dressing to attract men.There dresses are in yellow and black.
Text: Stashed text suggests loudness.