This document discusses the design elements used in a magazine's layout, including fonts, imagery, and formatting. It notes that a sans serif font and red and white colors are used on the cover to stand out and convey danger. The cover follows a Z-pattern layout to guide the reader's eye across the page. Inside, a professional sans serif style and bold red and black fonts are used on the contents page. Articles begin with a large colored drop cap to grab attention. Text is separated into columns for easy reading while maintaining neatness. Imagery of the artist conveys themes relevant to the article through symbols like words written on their face. An overall color scheme of black, white, and red creates a theme of

1. This magazine uses the San serif font which
backs up the fact the genre is rather abusive
and threatening. The house style used on the
front coveris red and white this is not only
because it stands out from the monochrome
background, the red font is used not only to
grab the attention of the audience but using
imagery creates an image of danger. The
shot image used here is a close up which
expressesthe characters facial expressions.
The front cover follows the usually Z pattern
which is known in the industry as the route of
the eye. The Z is the way our body will
naturally read things so creating a mast head
to start the Z off then the rest of the eye
follows with the main image followed by the
cover line and the coverstories which can be
located to each side of the image.
Brand verification-using a san serif style of
lettering in order to certify the male
magazine the san serif style is used in a
professionalway, Themagazine is seen
and recognised by the audience by the
letter V standing for vibe making it
noticeable. The layout of the contents
page is a professionallook and includes
eye catching heading in red and black font
style which represents the danger and
anger of the genre. This is in order to
entice the audience into reading the
article presenting the information through
columns is a convention of contents pages
as it allows the information to be easily
read. The body language seen by the artist
is shows us rather threatening behaviour
which we would expect of this genre.

2. Article starts with
a large firstletter
which is known as
a drop cap, the
drop cap and the
firstfew words
are in a different
font colour this is
in order to grab
the reader’s
attention and
allow them to
identify where
the startof the
article is. As we
can see in the
image the text
has been
separated into two different columns which allows for an easier read while
impacting the neatness of the article.
In the image of the artist we can see
he has the word “swag”writtenon
hisface many times,thissymbolises
to the readerthat thismaybe an
indicationof whatthe article might
include.
The colour scheme usedforthis
article isthe classicvibe blackwhite
and red.Thisisnotonlybecause it
createsa theme of dangerwiththe
dark mysteriousbackgroundbutthe
redrepresents bloodandanger.