This document summarizes some common conventions used on the covers of music magazines. It notes that mastheads use a special font in white without effects, cover lines entice readers with deals, and the main cover line is larger font that runs across the middle of the cover to stand out. It also includes bar codes, issue numbers, cover pictures overlapping text, and listings of other popular bands.

1. By Max Collins
Conventions Of Music Magazines

3. NME
Cover linesThese are put in
place to entice
This is the
the reader by
MastheadSpecial font in giving them
white with no special deals
effect but in
bold.
Main Cover
line- Has
much larger
font size
compared to
rest of text , it
also runs
across the
rest the
middle of the
front cover.
The white on
the Red
Bar
background code
allows the
And
text to stand issue
out.
number

4. Q
This is the MastheadSpecial font in white with
no effect or embolden
Main Cover lineHas much larger
font size
compared to rest
of text , it also
runs across the
rest the middle of
the front cover.
The grey on the
white and black
background allows
the text to stand
out.
Cover lines- These are put in
place to entice the reader by
giving them special deals
Bar code
and
issue
number

5. Main title for
cover
magazine
Other popular
bands

6. Cover picture which
overlaps some of the
text
Other popular
bands