The document summarizes and compares the mastheads of 4 magazines: 1) Rolling Stone's masthead would indicate its genre as a music magazine and use of red would catch readers' attention. 2) NME uses bold red letters with white and black outlines that stand out from other magazines to draw readers in. 3) Vibe's simple black lettering gives it a strong yet simplistic urban look with sharp edges suggesting rock music. 4) Q's simple white letter in a red font surrounded gives happy holiday motifs but a simple design to focus on articles across many genres. The mastheads use similar colors like red, black and white but different styles to represent their genres and

1. Mastheads
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2. Rolling Stone
describe
audience would see it
genre magazine writes and indication

3. NME
Large bold “NME” in a bright red colour. irt captures your eye
and therefore attention. Very noticeable.
It also has a thin white outline on the red and that's followed
by a black outline. This makes the white outline stands
out.
Because of its appearance it would draw the reader in with its
bold masthead with contrasting and bright colours that
would stand out from other magazines.

4. VIBE
The basic black out print of “vibe” gives it an
simplistic yet strong look to it. The letters have
sharp edges and distinguish lines, the height
of all the letters are the same and in block
capitals.
To a reader this would make them think this has a
very urban or Rocky genre however the text
“vibe” makes me think it's more urban.
The dark strong black and sharp edges will make
the reader feel like this magazine has strong
and straight to the point articles.

5. Q
Simple yet effective.
All it is, is a white Q in a rather simple oldie styled
font surrounded in a light bright red colour.
These colours work well together have have
happy motifs to Christmas and gifts.
To a reader this would make them feel happy and
possibly the simplest masthead would deliver
the best magazine articles as it's simple.
The genre of music attached to this I think would
be chart and cover a huge range of genres.

6. How are they different?
They all have the similar colours, apart from VIBE. These colours are red, black
and white. All the texts are bold which is for making is stand out so the reader will
notice and buy. They are all easy to read and don't use complicated language for
the reader, increasing their accessibility to the reader. However they are different
styles for different genres as it's clearly seen, for example vibe is more urban so it
doesn't include red or white when NME is more contemporary so they use a
mixture to attract readers.