Front Cover/Contents Page/Back Cover Generation

Colour

- the top 4 selection of colour schemes from my surveys was; Summer Theme, Winter Theme, Boyish and Modern/Stylish Theme.

The Top 2 with the highest selection, that I have to choose from is Summer or Modern/Stylish, I might seek the opportunity to mold them together into one. 

Summer Colours;

Cream

Yellow

Orange

Red

Maroon 

Green

Blue

Modern/Stylish Colours;

Black

Grey/Sliver

White

Violet

Dark Blue

Dark Green

Light Yellow

Light Red

Looking above at the colours I feel that we can combine them together to make my final theme, as they were the highest picked from my survey for a reason, so mixing them together might be the best idea. Using the lightest colours to highlight points, let the bold colours make the information I want to be standing out towards the reader and then the simply and beautiful colours that blend in with the those, let them be the background and fill out the basic requirements.

Font

Selecting the right type of font to use for my magazine cover is more important then you may think. Having my two types of colour themes, Summer and Modern/Stylish. Additional to having two system types, additive colour system this can be observed on a computer screen while a subtractive colour system can be found in print. Having a simple black on white combination on a screen can be overly luminous as well as harsh on the eyes when taking the additive colour system into consideration. There's a dramatic reduction in DPI from laser printed text (2400 dpi) to text that appears on a computer screen (96 dpi). Can make you wonder, what makes a good font in general? Must keep in mind that the contrast and stroke, x-height, width, letter spacing, and punch width when choosing an appropriate font.

The Size is a very important aspect, which must also be taken into consideration. When coming to choosing the font size you want, should always keep in mind that choosing sizes closer to one another for various levels within your site will output a more professional and elegant magazine, which will blend in strongly with my Modern/Stylish theme.
Font emphasis is another important factor. Font emphasis optimization alerts viewers to what is important on a page or where they should concentrate. Phrases that are either in bold, highlighted or between header tags. These phrases are deemed as important. One can therefore control keywords by placing them in bold or italics. Although, Italics is not always a good way to emphasize text. On low-resolution monitors italic text will not look that good due to slants and curves found in italicized letters, so when coming to printing it could be a different matter. Underlining as a means of emphasize is always a bad idea almost all readers identify underline text with links or looks amateur. Using color as an emphasis is also very tricky and can become a accessibility issue. Capitalizing is also a bad form of emphasis as it is harder to read a sentence in which all letters are capitalized then one containing lower case letters.

All of these issues I've discovered and will be taking into account with my magazine. Choosing the proper text is vital to readability as well as accessibility. 

STYLES - FRONT COVER

Images

It's often been said that everyone of the readers (subscribers, buyers and those who take the mag in their hands) glance thru the mag. The photos are like adds in that glancing moment to trap the reader. If a photo is interesting enough, the reader will stop to it and read the caption and if the interest stays there the title of the article is read next. If the beginning of the article is catching enough the reader will read all of it. In conclusion only 5% of readers read an article but almost all the photos get noticed.

The basic reasoning for the above is that people are busy and fundamentally to lazy, so we seek data via the way which is the most effortless,  so all the photos are of primary importance when selling magazines. The photos are actually magazine marketing.

Some magazines are said to place their most expensive adds and opening shots for key articles on the left-hand side of a page on an opening in the first half of the magazine and on the right-hand side on the latter half of the magazine, because this way when quick-leafing through a magazine the odds to catch the reader are higher for these articles and adds.

It's almost been researched and learned that the reaction to quick-leaf a magazine in two phases: 

- The first half is slipped by the thumb of the right hand and the eye is observing the left side of the opening. 

Once the part in the right-hand gets too thin you change hands, start quick-leafing from back to front, slipping the pages with left hand thumband and the eye follows the right hand side page. 

All and all it's usually considered that the writing journalist who is the "star", the key person behind the article. With the logic above it's proven point I'd like to raise the importance of photos in printed media and finding opinions, and even facts or links to possible studies of this matter, support these facts.