Birte G. Barsch is designing a style sheet for a new rock magazine targeting a young female audience. She considers various color schemes and font options. For the color scheme, she decides to combine elements from different options to best match the red hair of the model featured on the magazine's front cover. The selected scheme balances a girly pink tone with darker, more rock-inspired shades like wine red. For fonts, she chooses three that she feels suit the magazine's intended sophisticated yet elegant rock aesthetic.

1. Style sheet
Birte G. Barsch

2. Colours
I quite like this colour scheme
because it has both flashy and
dark tones that I think would
look on the kind of magazine I
would like to make. Also these
colours remind me of some of
the Rock sound front covers.
This one is quite a classic
combination for a rock
magazine as it includes orange
which is often connoted with
danger but also a little with the
rock industry. Kerrang often has
a similar colour scheme.
This one is also a more usual
colour scheme as the yellow
colour is often used for
warning signs. There are
quite a few magazines with
this colour scheme including
NME
This one is a little different but I
feel like some of the shades would
look really nice against a white
background. Also by using it on the
front page it would probably be
able to catch the audiences eyes
because it looks different than the
other Rock Magazines.
Pink is usualy not used within the
rock genre apart form some
exceptions like a few issues of
Rock sound and a few of
Kerrang`s issues. However since I
want to make a magazine more
directed to the female audience I
would still consider using it.
This one is again a more normal
scheme for a rock magazine. As the
red can be connoted with blood or
danger. The rock music is also
connoted with danger so there is a
relation between the colour and
the audience.

3. Possible combinations
While these colours work
quite nicely together I
don`t think they would
grab the audiences
attention as much as I
would like them to.
I don`t quite like how blue
the purples look. Also
because all of the colours
are so settle. They won`t
grab the attention of the
audience as much as other
colours would.
I feel like this one is
quite well balanced
between intense and
settle colours. I also
think the colours would
work nicely with the
rock genre/
Since the person
I`m going to have
on my front cover
has red hair I think
it’s a good idea that
the colour scheme I
chose will match
the red colour of
her hair. So instead
of choosing one of
the colour schemes
I to try to combine
them.

4. Fonts
Masthead
For the article
For the titles and eventually
for the contents page
These three fonts are the once
I`m going to use for my magazine.
As I feel like they look nicely
together. I also feel like they
emphasise the idea behind the
magazine, which is supposed to
be a more sophisticated and
elegant rock magazine for a young
female audience.

5. Colour scheme
This the one I think is going to work the most on the front
cover. I also think they are going to grab the audiences
attention the quickest as they are a mix of usual and
unusual colours to use on a rock magazine. I think these
colour are going to compliment the hair colour of my front
cover model the most. Since this colour scheme includes
quite a girly colour, pink, I think it`s good that it also
includes some darker shades like the wine/blood red. This
creates a balance between the girly and the more rock
inspired style.