The Cover #2

After creating what I have “deemed my cover”, I noticed that I decided on some design choices that represent my magazine as an entirely different entity compared to the ones that I have studied in terms of font and color. I revamped the cover’s look entirely: changing each of the colors of the fonts to a white with a black outline. This design is more down to earth and does not try to impact the readers with bright colors. The genre that I have researched generally contain black font for their covers; however, white does come up every so often for specific covers that have dark images, like mine. Also, the main cover’s model/ person the feature spread will be about was not named on the bottom left of the magazine above the anchorage, so that was added. Once again, the font used was Times New Roman for the simplistic feel, style and look. The font itself is usually used in the business genre some others included Ariel and Calibri; however, from the three that the genre utilizes I chose Times New Roman because it is generalized as the most used font for formal documents, I am trying to appeal to the masses by doing this while following the codes and convictions of the genre.

The basis for my cover:

Since I studied the magazine: Entrepreneur, they used plus signs between the anchorage text to separate the main spreads of the magazine. So, I did the same; however, they use yellow for their plus signs, but I decided to instead use a fluorescent pink. Both colors, from my magazine and the one that I studied, are fluorescent/neon in nature and catch the eyes of an individual smoothly while doing the niche that the signs were designed to do: break up the anchorage text. My genre also had dashes or slashes between the anchorage text colored in a bright color such as red, orange or yellow to break up the anchorage text further but also summarize in a few words what a spread in the magazine will be about, so I did the same making my slashes the same pink as the plus signs keeping some continuity within the design. Moreover, my genre of magazine differs with the number of cover lines, but when the cover image contains an individual with ominous lighting the cover line is usually to the right or left of the model. For my cover lin,e I followed the codes that I studied and made it Times New Roman as well and making it larger font to catch the audience eyes.

The title's font when compared to the to are different since I wanted my cover to stand out to my audience, white male dominated. Another, major difference between the covers is that my cover has the headline on the right side of the cover because if it was located on the left it will cover the model's face. Also, the website for my magazine is structure differently because if done like the entrepreneur cover this text box will cover the main cover's image.