Travel, Fashion & Entertainment Front Covers

Fashion 

Many fashion genres of magazine's use simplicity to their advantage (for example Vogue, Bazaar, , with the centre medium close up of the model taking focus of the issue. The majority rather than using more photo's spread around the page to highlight offleads, editors use larger fonts and play around with text to enhance the words that they want the audience to pick up when first looking at the issue. For instance, this ELLE cover points out the key words "Margot Robbie, Sex, Skin Nails Hair, 608" - all these words are in old or larger fonts to create connotations of female sex appeal, beauty and are highlighting the huge amount of fashion tips they include in their magazine. This is all to appeal to their target audience, carefully selecting topics that catch the eye of their readers. Many fashion issues also incorporate the model into the masthead, either the mast head sitting behind the model or the model being placed so it covers particular letters - this is done usually in later issue's as readers already know the brand of the magazine. 

Travel

Travel magazines usually use landscapes as their front covers, like Coast, Travel, Traveller, Voyager - and depending on the issue they will relate to the season, such as landscapes of beaches and holiday villas, or mountains and snowy desolate areas. For this issue of Travel, simplicity is also used with the breathtaking view catching the eye of readers. The front is quite basic and so the editor has chosen to use shades of blue to make certain words stand out (for instance "Greek Islands, 50 destination, Two-in-one Thailand) to match the theme of the landscape. Alliteration is used on the front cover to further grab the attention of readers, with the "two-in-one Thailand" highlighting bargains included within the issue. The issue focuses on the appealing offleads within the magazine - such as "summer city escapes" and "great dives" - so rather than stating more information about these escapes available, the magazine just states the places that could apply to these "great dives", creating a more informative magazine for readers.

Entertainment

Entertainment Weekly is just one example of entertainment magazine, however covers much of the 'repetition' seen over many other covers of entertainment genre magazines. Entertainment magazines usually have a lot going on in the front cover, including bright bold colours (much like the primary colours based within this issue's front cover - the yellow in the mast head, along with the blues and red also used throughout the cover). The covers are usually 'loud' - with a lot going on the front cover, unlike Vogue and ELLE, where simplicity is the key element of fashion magazines. The editor used bold fonts as this issue is an iconic one in the film industry, and reflects the insane movie that is being promoted in the issue.