Table of contents

So I’ve been glancing at a few magazine table of contents and no matter what genre or demographic that the magazine is targeting, the designs usually have a few connections.

I’ve noticed that magazine font color usually correspond with the outstanding colors in pictures surrounding them. For example, Vogue’s February of 2010 issue features a woman dressed in black and white just like their font. Another good table of contents is Food Networks table of contents. On the page there’s a sandwich, with a few red and orange colors inside, then the fonts are in the same color scheme. The pictures of what I was referencing will be displayed down below.

When it comes to figuring out where headlines should lie, I found a blog post, from a girl doing the same project as me. I noted that important headlines should be around images, most likely because that’s where the reader’s eye will be drawn towards. Also the subjects in our table of contents should obviously relate to the content being featured in our magazine and the masthead should be repeated in the magazine.

I also played around with an app to make a mock table of contents.

 

Citations:  Wallace, A. (2018). Magazine contents page analysis 1. [online] Amywallacemedia.files.wordpress.com. Available at: https://amywallacemedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/magazine-contents-page-analysis-1.jpg [Accessed 19 Mar. 2018].