Analysing magazine mastheads from different cultures.

Kerrang magazine has a logo that shows thought the music that they include throughout their magazine as it’s bold, ‘in your face’ and unique. The music they right about is metal/rock and I think that this logo shows this well. The writing font shows that the music is sharp, hard and load. This is because of the straight edges and style of how it has been laid out, but is also all in capital letters which also is a good way of showing, as this music is loud, fast and ‘hard-core’ which is what you expect from capital letters, as it is normally linked to screaming or shouting. This gives off this effect and link between the music and logo.

Smash hits magazine is colourful and soft, showing the style of music that they show is upbeat and ‘happy’ music. The font is curved and all in lower case, compared to Kerrang this magazine is calm and ‘quieter than this, through the font you can tell what type of music the magazine is going to be writing about.