Magazine Colour Schemes

The main colour scheme of Q magazine is red,white.yellow,soft pink and black. The colours used in the magazines front covers are usually very attractive and bright. The logo of Q magazine has a red square background, this has connotations of love, danger and passion. This also makes the logo of the magazine memorable therefore it is highly noticeable to its audience when sitting on the store shelves.The font colour is white which contrasts the background and has different connotations of innocence, purity and elegance. The subject also has a white dress which suggests the same idea. There are a variety of colour's used to make this front cover appealing. The use of soft pink font around the corners of the magazine cover aid to blend everything together. The colour's used in the Q magazine, which is based on music and has a young audience of mainly aged 15-44 years old. 


The use of the colour yellow is used to attract attention to specific parts of the magazine, it contrasts all the colour's used as it is the strongest, yellow has connotations of power,happiness, strength and energy. It is where the readers eyes will divert too almost straightaway. This is good to get the message across to the audience immediately about what is included in the magazine also to bring attention to what targets the audience specifically such as festivals, new songs,new albums etc...  The layout of the magazine also suggests that the magazine has a lot to offer, there are so many little details included on the front cover. This makes every issue special and unique.

 The magazine also sets out their double page spreads in a specific way, again using the colour red to make an exquisite report on any famous singer/songwriter. The celebrities initial is splashed across the page in red for every artist used in Q magazines issue. The colour's used on the front cover are mirrored throughout the magazine in the different articles and picture's used.