House Style

The main style i want in my magazine is a simple yet professional looking magazine. Therefore getting across the main details in my magazine in an easy to understand way.
Font:
The fonts that i am going to use in my magazine are going to be sans seriff in normal blocks of text, for example when my main artist is answering questions in the feature article. However this will change for headings e.g. saying what is included in the contents page. Then the font will be seriff perhaps a font like Trajan Pro. I am going to use a seriff font for my heading as seriff fonts tend to stand out more and look a bit more professional and this is important for headings in my magazine as they are the parts of the magazine that people are going to read out first so therefore they need to look more professional. As well as that seriff fonts will most likely be deployed for the questions in my feature article interview as then the reader can easily determine the difference between who's speaking. Finally the colour of font that i am going to use is most likely going to be red for text headings and white for the actual text. I have chosen these two colours for the font as they are professional and look good together.

Colour Scheme:
The predominant colours that i am going to include in my magazine are going to be red, white, grey and black.
I am going to use grey and black as a background on the pages (especially clear on the front cover) with at the top of the page the colour being a faint black but then the page fading down to become a light grey colour. I have got this idea using inspiration from billboard magazine as they often use background colours on their front cover with one colour fading into another colour.
I am then going to use the colour white for most my normal text as it is a simple colour that is clear and easy to read but does not take your eye off the other more important images and colours on the page.
Finally i am going to use the red colour for text heading on every page as the colour red will clearly stand out against the grey colour. I have also got the idea of using red with black from NME magazine in which they use red and black as their colour scheme and it comes across very professionally and clearly.

Visual Features:

A visual feature that i am looking to include on every page of my magazine is just the A from my masthead. I have chose this because it will be clear to everyone that the A stands for Anthem but it just creates a more professional look for the magazine. I am going to put this visual feature in the top left hand corner as everyone reads from left to right so will therefore see the A for anthem straight away.