Typography

Music Magazines have a range of different type of typography; however they all share the same colour scheme: red. The masthead tends to be bold in order to attract the reader and majority of the time is san serif. For example music magazine ‘NME’ is red as it connotes danger, heat and aggression, this shows that the artists passion for music is very bold and have anger in their music. However the outline is black as it shows that the artist’s music is still serious. NME is also case sensitive, which means that the magazine is very direct to their audience.  Some mastheads have a coloured background which relates to their music genre e.g. rebellious, rap etc. However ‘smashhit’ doesn't have a coloured background because they have outlined the masthead in black and in sanserif. The fonts remind me of actions movies and that they are very quick to approach the readers. They all have similarities however ‘top of the pops’ stands out as it doesn't follow the music house style, their main colour scheme is yellow and pink, they go against it. This is because their target audience is teenagers girls, this stands out because their font style is very groovy and reminds me of 80’s. Overall we can say those music magazine mastheads are usually red, bold and serif.