Rap magazine contents page analysis

XXL magazine have gone for a red and black colour scheme for their contents page  as they feel that it best represents their genre and their magazine. The cover story stands out as a result which is helpful to the readers.

The image used is of two rappers standing back to back and they only used one image compared to other magazines which is iconic to only to XXL magazine.

The most important page numbers are larger to get readers to notice them and by making it as simplistic as this, it makes it easily accessible to the audience to as it allows them to easily find what they are looking for.

There is no pulled quote so it misses one of the elements a magazine should have and a pulled quote is effective as it can lure the reader to find out more things like thoughts and feelings of the audience.

The magazine logo is at the bottom and at the top right of the context page. The one at the top stands out more as it would be one of the first thing the audience will notice as they read from the top left to right, and the one at the bottom is generic many magazines as they all usually put it there along side their websites.

The font and layout adheres to the house style  of the magazine as it is big and bold and mainly one colour black, in fact black is the most dominate colour in the magazine maybe to represent the majority of their target market even though they don't call it out, the images, words and font they used shows who they expoect their target market to be. There is no letter from the editor as XXL magazine do not usually do this .