Analyzing Cover Language

In this blog, I am going to analyze the language of some cover magazines of my genre, to get a  better idea and understanding of what I want to include in mine.

Dogster

Dogster's coverlines are usually straight-forward and easy to understand as well as fun and engaging. This is because their audience tends to be 52% of people graduated with a bachelor's degree so the other half is not as highly educated. Dogster keeps it light and fresh with the diction, enough to interest both types of audiences. Commonly, they add different size, color and font within the same cover line, they also bold some parts of the writing to put focus on the words they want the reader to notice.

Animal Tales

Animal Tales tends to have a bunch of colors, images and therefore more anchorage text as well. They attract the audience with their dog puns which are adorable and I want to add that in my cover as well. Animal Tales targets younger audiences and my magazine potentially will too so it fits to add puns. Still, I don't think too many look good.

They have a mixture of serif and sans serif fonts and it looks good. They also tend to change the colors a lot which is appealing to the eye. However, all the colors the use makes it look more childish  in difference from Dogster that has a certain color palette. Personally, a specific choice of a few colors looks better than a bunch of different ones and it is also more sophisticated. They're language is straight-forward and easy to understand. We can tell my the diction that this is a kids magazine. An adult would not be interested in getting animal Bingo cards or knowing how to make the "purr-fect" purse. My magazine will be more towards teenagers.