Magazine Cover Styles

Cover Types
1. Early Magazine Covers

• - Always had a drawing on them
• - Very simple 
• - Often had a moral theme
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2. The Poster Cover

• - Its a large picture that covers almost the whole cover
• - Small amount of words
• - The words only has to be about the cover
• - The pictures tend to be visually appealing

Disadvantages

• - Portrait covers can be tiring
• - You don't know what is inside the magazine
• - If pictures aren't awesome people won't pick up your magazine cover
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3. Pictures Married to Type

• - Match the theme
• - they(the words and the pictures) complement each other
• - It tells you what is going on in the photo and it tells you what you can expect to see inside the magazine.
• - The text wraps where their nose is 

Disadvantages

• - Some people would find it boring to look at
• - Boring colors
• - Lack of visual appearance
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4. In the Forest of Words

• - We are going to see a lot of words on the cover.
• - There are some bold words and some not bold words.
• - Colorful
• - Different fonts
• - Bolds and Non bolds
• - Lots of points of entry or entry points
•  Disadvantages
• - It takes away from the photo.
• - There is too much stuff on the magazine

Stuff every magazine cover has:

• -The title of the magazine
• - There must be some sort of art or a picture
• - A date
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