The document analyzes several color palettes and discusses their suitability for different types of magazines. It considers how colors like reds, blacks, blues and greys could work for magazines with themes related to alternative music, fashion, or content appealing to both male and female audiences. The author's favorite palette incorporates light and dark colors like black, blue and grey that contrast strongly yet seem relaxed. This palette is seen as fitting their magazine's alternative music theme while appealing to both genders.

1. Analysis of Colour
Palettes
This colour palette
conveys relaxing colours-
which could display a
relaxing theme. These
colours would be great
for a fashion/music
magazine depending on the
style as I believe the
style of these colours
would offer quite a calm
and acoustic based music
magazine and maybe quite
a feminine fashion based
magazine.
In my opinion, this colour
palette reminds me of an
alternative or rock
magazine simply due to the
deep reds and the burgundy
colour. I believe that the
contrasting colours of the
black and the reds could
be quite effective and eye
catching.
This colour palette
differs to the others as
it has the stereotype of
red, but I believe that
the grey in this palette
makes it unique and this
could come across as
quite interesting within
a magazine although the
grey is subtle.
This colour palette
consisting of the classic
black, grey and white
combination could be seen on
a page full of text- however
some people could argue that
this may not brighten the
page up. Although I believe
these colours need to be
accompanied by a bright
colour in order to be able to
highlight things.
I personally like this
colour palette as I believe
the colours compliment each
other well and again come
across as quite relaxed.
This palette could be seen
in a magazine with the
target audience of males.
This colour palette
differs to the others in
the sense that it has
‘more’ hints of
feminism. This could be
something I could
involve within my own
magazine to defy the
stereotypes that it is
only men that listen to
alternative rock.

2. I believe that this is one of my
favorite colour palettes out of the
ten shown here. This is because there
are both light and dark colours and
they contrast strongly but I find
them very appealing and believe that
they could go together to create an
interesting magazine theme. I love
how the grey/blue in the middle isn’t
aimed at just the male audience it
can be aimed at both audiences.
I find this colour palette to
be gentle looking as it
contains no harsh colours. I
believe that it would set a
nice layout for a contents
page as the colours do still
manage to stand out but aren’t
very bold. I believe this is
something I would like to
include within my own
magazine.
This colour palette differs to
the other colour palettes as I
believe that these colours may
work well with light/dark
greys. I think that it would
also appeal to both audiences
as in my opinion green is
neither related highly to the
female or male audiences
specifically.
As you can see from my previous colour
palettes blue is a regular theme, this is
because I believe the colour blue is calm
and relaxing and isn’t very hard hitting
(therefore isn’t hard to look at). I
think that this colour palette would be
very close to being one of my favorites
due to its relaxing vibe.

3. Why have I chosen to use this
colour palette?
The reason I have chosen to use this colour palette for my
magazine is because I think that the colours compliment each other
very well and I also believe that they really fit with my music
theme being alternative.
The black is a colour that will enable me to allow things to stand
out if they need too and the blues and greys are subtle-yet again
effective. I love how the grey/blue in the middle isn’t aimed at
just the male audience it can be aimed at both audiences as this is
what my magazine is about.
Below are some examples of what the title of my magazine may look
like with the chosen font/colours.
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