Colour Scheme - Drafting & Planning & Research My Layout

I have tried to incorporate a FEW colours into my magazine design that will enforce the look I wish to convey, but also make it stylish and fun to read. I wanted to use black text like every conventional magazine, maybe a sultry hue of red (Hex Colour #DC1427) added to parts of my magazine.

On my first draft using the programme 'PagePlus' I used superstar Christina Aguilera to appear on my magazine. In my real magazine, I will use artist 'Monika' as my issue star, and elements of my Christina draft magazine will foreshadow my new magazine, incorporating the same headlines, cover headlines, text and colour schemes.

Some colour schemes I looked at for my REAL magazine included:



Black, White and Purple were good choices as black and white are good contrasts in all paper forms of media, and a magazine specifically would benefit from having a bright contrast which is neutral in gender such as Purple. A dark purple (maybe darker than the one on the image, left)

Also, I decided that Purple would be a good way to make text stand out in quite masculine pages, but there's a feminine touch to purple which would highlight the purity of a female star on certain pages in the issue.

Here, I decided that maybe I would have a female cover star, but a dominantly male issue inside to create a good gender contrast. But after hours and hours of contemplating my decisions, I considered that maybe a more female magazine would be efficient as my magazine focuses on the music made by powerhouse vocalists, and not many of them are men. Plus, my primary results showed that it's mostly females that are interested in my magazine, so yet again, I had to change my mind.

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THIS IS THE ONE! Not too pink, not too red. The hex:colour I've chosen above is #DC1427 (which is slightly different to the image, left)
However, I know that this sultry hue of fuchsia will adhere to my magazine as it fits precisely with the magazine attitudes, the attitudes of the cover stars, the personality of the issue stars, photography, typography and matches the overall look of the enterprise.