This document outlines common elements found on magazine covers such as banners, mastheads, cover lines, barcodes, feature pictures, and house styles. Typical magazine covers include a large central feature picture, cover lines describing the main stories, and people looking directly at the audience from the cover in line with the publication's house style. Additional elements are dates, websites, quotes, barcodes, and positioning statements.

1. Magazine covers codes and
conventions
Lauren Mcloughlin

2. Banner
Masthead
Cover lines
Main cover line
Barcode
Simple
background
Huge feature picture in
the middle
House style -
sophisticated
Person looking
directly at the
audience

3. Positioning statement
Date
Masthead
House style –
pink/girly
Magazine website
Huge feature picture in
the middle
Quotes/main
cover line
Cover lines
Person looking
directly at the
audience
Simple backgroundSplash/
puff