The document discusses different magazine genres including sports, news, food, garden, fitness, and fashion. For sports magazines, the main icon is usually an athlete with related equipment shown in bold capitalized font using darker colors targeting male audiences. News magazines typically feature a political figure and article titles presented neatly appealing to older audiences using red borders and titles. Food magazines display dishes and their origins with font and background colors determined by the featured dish. Garden magazines show plants like a single lily using fresh green and white colors and clear, easy to read font. Fitness magazines depict especially healthy people, with muscular men and skinny women, using a diverse color palette. Fashion magazines are fronted by models in designer clothes with background and colors
2. SPORTS
The main icon for sports
magazines is usually a player
of that particular sport and
related equipment. For
example, this magazine
shows boxing gloves, other
magazines may have
footballs, basketballs or
hockey sticks. Bold font is
used in capital letters.
Darker shades are used for
the colour palette, targeting
a male audience.
3. NEWS
The main icon for news
magazines is usually a political
figure, along with text referring
to information regarding
something they have done or
will do. At the top are titles for
other articles inside the
magazine. The magazine is
presented very neatly, making it
seem appealing to older
audiences. The colour used for
the border and title is red, which
is the most eye catching colour
due to having the longest
wavelength.
4. FOOD
Food magazines usually
show a dish on their front
page along with a reference
to where the dish
originated. In this
particular magazine the
font is white and the
background is grey, but the
colour palette for each
food magazine is
determined by the colours
of the dish being used.
5. GARDEN
Magazines based on
gardening usually have
plants for their front
pages. This magazine
shows a single lily, others
may show an entire
garden of flowers. Fresh
colours like green and
white are used. The font
used is clear and easy to
read.
6. FITNESS
The main icon for
fitness magazines is
usually an especially
healthy looking person,
who in the case of men
is muscular and in the
case of women is skinny.
A diverse colour palette
is used, containing
yellow, blue, white, black
and red.
7. FASHION
The main icon for a
fashion magazine is
usually a model wearing
designer clothes. The
background and colours
are determined by the
clothes the model is
wearing and the current
season. Mostly softer
colours are chosen to
attract a female audience.