Magazine Spreads

Here are the thumbnails of the tracings I did of Real Simple, Taste of Home, and Popular Photography.

While trying to analyze some magazine I had at my house I have noticed a few things. I hadn't realized before that contents aren't always a spread. Sometime (like in these three magazines) they are front and back. They also mix serif and sans-serif fonts which I think works really well and is a great idea. In the Simple magazine they use san serif for body text in some places and in others they use serif. I'm not quite sure what the point for that was. It was pretty easy once I started tracing over the spreads and placing that paper of different pages to see what kind of grid they use. One thing that was I was trying to look for was a theme line. Sometimes it was easier than others to see this but I think the real simple magazine had a real definite theme line and that was mostly due to they used a line a lot of times.