Evaluation of Masthead Magazines

2. The magazine Mastheads that I have represented in the mood board, mostly seem to like the idea of the boldest colour to
be red. To me this is nice but it gets annoying that its used repetitively in a magazine also that more than one magazine uses
this idea. I guess they are just following the Forms and Conventions of a magazine. For example; the magazine Q always has
a red square around the letter and is in white, they have chose this colour for the magazine name to stand out when its on
the shelf as it’s a bright colour and catches the eye quickly. On the contrary I think the Masthead of the ‘Billboard’ magazine
is better with the idea of the design, as when the colour of the background is different, the masthead would be either white
or black. Also inside the text on the letters they have a fill in and they are bold colours - red, blue, yellow all the primary
colours, this makes the magazine unique and eye-catching.
Some of the Magazines have outlined the writing of the, I do like it a little bit as its unique not everyone follows this trend
however then it doesn’t look great as it does make the text look smaller and tight. Furthermore some have added a shadow
behind the text which does look a quite nice as it seems that they are coming of the page. For example ‘Rolling Stones’
magazine has used it, this projects what the genre the magazine is and what type of reader its applied to.