Colour Testing

GREEN is a very neutral colour that stereotypically has no gender attached to it I feel it would be suitable for any text. However it wouldn’t due to the fact it is extremely bright and colourful, which would suit a child’s magazine more than an adult’s magazine. Therefore I won’t use this as a text on my magazine, unless I am trying to attract children to a specific section.

GREY is typically a very sorrowful and isolated colour, however I feel it is quite light and would go well with a very simple layout of a magazine, so that you can then use extremely bright colours to attract the readers attention to certain sections. Overall I feel grey will suit my magazine very well, as it is genderless along with green, however is more sophisticated and simple at the same time.

BLACK is a pretty much worldwide used colour or all magazines. It is very bold compared to most other colours, and is extremely versatile (it can be formal and also informal when needed). I will definitely be using black for the colour of some sections of font in my magazine, as it is simple and expected in magazines.

RED is a massive contrast compared to black and grey, the two colours that I will be using the most in my text, therefore I feel that I should use a colour like this for the text I would like to stand out and catch the readers attention, also red is commonly used in rock magazines to do just that.

BLUE is usually associated with the earth, and commonly boys. Nevertheless it is a very light colour, and would suite a really cleansing relaxing magazine like, a health magazine.