Colour scheme research

  The genre of my magazine tends to attract a mainly male audience, because of this I am looking for a set of stereotypical masculine colours. It is also important to keep the amount of colours down to a set of just 3, this is conventional for a house style as it creates continuity across the magazine and keeps it looking professional.

  When I had a look at the colour schemes of some of the magazines already existing in the genre the colours I found that were most common were red, black and white.

Kerrang

After doing a Google search these were the first results shown for Kerrang. As you can see Kerrang is one of the magazines which uses black, red and white. However Kerrang also tends to break convention of having a set house style, and uses more than three colours in a scheme. Kerrang also tends to use blues and yellows along with the red, white and black. I want to point out that some of the images above are of older editions of Kerrang, and so the masthead and style is slightly different. Kerrang is bit different to other magazines in the genre as they use different colours for their masthead in each release of the magazine.

 Mojo

I also did a Google search for the magazine Mojo. Mojo uses darker colours and their mast head only appears in black of white. They too tend to use blacks, whites and some reds. However as you can see for some editions they may use other colours. Unlike Kerrang they do tend to stick to the conventional 3 colours for a cover. 

                                                                   NME

I again did a Google search for NME and it is clear that they also seem to use reds, whites and blacks on a majority of the covers. Like Kerrang they use some yellows and like both of the magazines above they have some special edition covers in which are different colours from their regular releases. Like Mojo, NME sticks to the three colours, which create a house style.