Colours

Colours are a vital part of the design of any magazine. It is important that the magazine looks neat and professional and also easy for the readers to follow. Colour continuity is essential throughout a magazine to link the pages together. The readers of the magazine should be able to recognise the genre of music the magazine is about by the colours on the front page for example on a rock magazine such as Q and MOJO the traditional colours are red and black to portray rock and roll.

As my genre is EDM i looked at the colours that Mixmag magazine use to portray the genre. Mixmag's uses bright colours such as greens and blues to represent strobe lights and individuality.

For example this issue of Mixmag shows us the use of bright colours to portray the clubbing and dance music genre. They use the bright colours to attract the young and exciting target audience they are reaching out to. Mixmag often have a contrast between black and bright colours. The black connotes the night time where most of the house events take place. This has taught me to take the colours I use into consideration so that they link to my genre and target audience.