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In this blog, I will be showing how I use house style in my magazine. I will be speaking on the specific elements used to create that house style.
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masthead: my masthead is in dark green, bolded lettering and it is placed in the middle of the page. This is going to set the color and the theme of following pages of the magazine. Notice how in the next two pages, the masthead is in its same green, big lettering and its centering in the middle of the page. That’s is the trend I’m going for. Overall I used the masthead to create my brand for my magazine. “ OH THE PLACES SHE’LL GO”, like I mentioned in my last blogs, I wanted to create a Dr.Seuss theme, which I have now recently learned is part of creating my house style.
font: the font all throughout the magazine is in the same family, in some parts of the magazine the font is either big or small, bolded or italicized, either way it looks like it is the same font all throughout the magazine. The only exception is in the table of contents, I kept the same font for the numbers because I thought it would stand out more and I used a different font for “LUGGINA”. This is where I used the font, to continue that dr.Seuss theme.
color: the color all throughout are different shades of green along with a little bit of a beige to add a touch of something different. This is to create a retro 2000s look in order to attract a younger audience to what I am writing about. This will definitely show the reader that my magazine will use green all through the magazine and expect no less.
picture proportions/placements: I didn’t want the picture to take up too much of the page however, I did want it to be in the middle as well as have a retro effect by being placed in a slanted oval frame. I wanted the audience to know who the magazine was about but also focus on the headlines and subheadings and masthead. This picture placement and frame is shown al, through the magazine as seen in the next pages. The pictures are placed in obscure frames which make it seem modern and have a sort of organized tone to the whole magazine.
barcode/date: in order to create a more professional but also young looking magazine I made sure the barcode and issue date wasn’t missed at all when looking at the magazine. The reader will be able to find the price of my magazine and when it was created to see if it is “in its time”.
grammar/jargon: throughout the whole magazine I made sure I used enough high frequency words, an other way to show the audience that this magazine is more for the youth.
Overall, the house style of my magazine consists of the color green and its various shades, the trend of the masthead, but most of all, the Dr.Seuss trend all throughout my magazine.
Sources used for research:
https://www.thoughtco.com/house-style-editing-1690842
https://prezi.com/6jf-wzz5up2u/magazine-house-style/
That’s all for now!
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