Analysis of existing magazines 2

For the second magazine, i'm going to be analysing the design of Smash Hits magazine. Even though this magazine isn't around anymore, it was very popular at the time.

Front cover I think they have given smash hits as the title of the magazine because its catchy and easy to remember. Also it's very relevant to the genre of the magazine as 'hits' relates to top songs.
Colour
The main colour on the front page thats used is pink. This may indicate to readers that the magazine will be aimed more at females then males. Another thing to suggest this would be the features on the front, i.e '19 red carpet looks you'll love' and 'starts exposed'. These titles would mainly just ctah the eye of the girls. The title is pink yet outlined with white, this makes it stand out from the rest of the text on the page, so you can clearly see what they magazine is called. The colour yellow has been used around the text boxes, i think this has been used as its a very bright, eye-catching colour. It outlines the 4 images used and almost acts like a grid to seperate each picture from eachother and the rest of the text. As the style of music this magazine is promoting is very happy and modern, this colour presents this nicely.
Font
The font used on the front cover is a mixture of sans serif font and serif font. I think they have done this because, the bits that are in the sans serif font are the parts that need to be clearer for the readers. Quite a lot of the text has a white outlining to it, to make it appear bolder and clearer to read. A total of 5 different styles of fonts have been used, this makes the front cover more interesting and a chance for the designer to show off and play around with thses fonts. Sometimes, if too many fonts have been used it can look too messy and too hard to understand. However on the cover of Smash Hits they have used them very effectively and all for different reasons on different parts of text.
Images
All the pictures on the front cover are of celebrities, this shows that this is what the magazine is going to be based around. Also i have noticed that the pictures of celebrities they've chosen aren't hugely known around the globe. Most of them are teen stars. For example, Chantelle Houghton appears on the front cover, she won celebrity big brother and now is described as a celebrity thorugh being on a reality TV show. This show appeals to the target audience of the magazine therefore they are probably more familiar with her rather than someone in the older generation. An image of the singer Preston from the Ordinary Boys is on the cover too, as he is known for his singing in a band, this ties in with the genre of the magazine being pop. This image is also the biggest on the cover, showing that this is going to be one of the main features in the magazine.
Language
There isn't much to comment on about the language used on the front cover as there isnt much text on the cover. One thing however would be that the word 'exposed' is used, by using this word it grabs children's attention and makes them want to read on. If they read that something is exposed about celebrities, it may make the magazine seem more personal to them and like they are finding out something that no one else does. Also the language used is very simple, it needs to be simple because the text needs to get to the ponit, most of the text are like subtitles. A pull-quote is said to grab the reader's attention and make them want to turn to that page to read on about the interview with Preston.