Outside of color images, National Geographic uses only 2 colors: black and a goldenrod yellow. Each cover is edged with a yellow frame, which gives the publication a vintage look, draws the eye to it sitting on a shelf, and… Continue Reading
While I couldn’t find a complete color palette for the New Yorker online, I looked through multiple issues of the publication and looked for similarities with my own eyes, and found a few. The New Yorker is mainly black and… Continue Reading
Esquire magazine uses many different colors throughout its issues. The colors depend on what the overlying theme and color for the entire issue is. The basic color palette id black, white, blue, red and yellow. These five colors are always… Continue Reading
A Condé Nast publication, bon appétit, uses color in a very intriguing manner creating a symbolic narrative in alignment with the literary narrative. The color schemes are usually a derivative of the images and illustrations that are used in the stories.… Continue Reading
While browsing through both of my issues of New York Magazine, I found that the main three colors used in typography and graphic elements were black, red, and blue. Red is known as a fiery color representing passion, strength, and… Continue Reading
Wired expertly uses color as a way to establish hierarchy on each page, and to distinguish features from one another. On the cover of Wired, the use of color varies. On the December 2019 issue, there is a bright yellow used to contrast… Continue Reading
For the Color field note assignment I will be analyzing the November 2019 issue of Fast Company. The first thing that became apparent to me after flipping through the magazine looking at their color choices, was that Fast Co. doesn’t… Continue Reading
Along with highlighting graphical elements in my previous post, there is a consistency in the textual elements as well. To begin with, the headline is the textual element that has the maximum line weight followed by the deck line, which… Continue Reading
Image Style & Content Covers Faithful readers can imagine the average cover image of an issue of National Geographic: vertical, centered, filling the foreground, depth of focus. However, the cover images are much more varied than readers realized. While photos… Continue Reading
The New Yorker uses a variety of images in its publication. The most iconic imagery often associated with the New Yorker are its illustrations, though. The cover is always an illustration or painting of some sort from an artist, and… Continue Reading