New colour scheme

After receiving my rough cut analysis, I realised how plain my magazine is. Not just the front cover, but the colours on my contents page and double page spread were all quite similar and nothing really stood out. This led to me trying out numerous colours, but nothing looked good. I tried changing the background to green, but this completely subverted the conventions of my style model, Q. I changed the background back to how it was, and began altering the colours of the text, however, none of the colours went with the purple background. I tried reds, both bright and pale; blue and yellow, but even the primary colours looked odd. After looking through a number of Q magazine issues, I found this one, from 2012.

The colour scheme on this page is black, white, red and gold, and because I vowed to myself not to use red, gold appeared to be the only colour that I could try. After changing the colours of the lines in between the text, and the headline, my front page looked a lot brighter. I used gold on my contents page for continuity, changing the colour bar across the top of the page, page number boxes. This slight change in colour made a big difference to my magazine, making it lighter and immediately more appealing. On my double page spread, however, I realised that I actually needed to change the main title to a different font in a different colour in order for it to stand out. I experimented with some of the colours and decided on a turquoise-blue because it features nowhere else on my magazine. Next, I changed a couple of other features on the page to the same colour so it all tied in, these were: the box for the caption, the quote and the line across the bottom of the article.