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Code and Conventions of Magazine

Typography

Typography refers to the art of organizing text to make it legible, readable, and aesthetically appealing when displayed. It includes the composition, style, and decoration of text, along with its method of presentation, whether on screen or paper. It also involves choosing typefaces, point sizes, line spacing (leading), and letter spacing.

Typeface 

A typeface also known as font family, consists of multiple fonts that share common design elements. Each individual font in a typeface has characteristics such as style, width, weight, condensation, slant, italicization, ornamentation, and the designer's unique style.

Point Size

In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure, which is used to define font sizes, leading and other design elements on a printed page. Over the years, its size has varied from 0.18 to 0.4 millimeters. It refers to the distance from the highest point of a letter (ascender) to the lowest point (descender) in a typeface. Today with the emergence of digital printing, the DTP (desktop publishing) point has become the standard, defined as 1/72 of an inch which is for 1 point. For example, a 12-point font means the height of the text is approximately 1/6 of an inch.

Line Lengths

It refers to the horizontal span of a line of text, measured by the number of characters, words, or physical width which is usually in inches, centimeters, or pixels. In typography ideal line length is generally between 45-75 characters per line, including spaces. Typographers adjust line length to aid legibility fit.

Line Spacing

Line spacing also refer to as leading in typography, refers to the vertical distance between lines of text in a paragraph. It is measured from the baseline of one line of text to the baseline of the next.

Letter Spacing

Letter Spacing also known as tracking in typography, refers to the adjustment of space between characters across the entire block of text. It improves the readability, especially in larger text blocks or small font sizes.










Here the text has been minimized and the layout has prioritizes the image.







Where as here we can see that half of the layout consists of image and half of the text.






Here we can see that images are in the center of the layout and text on both of the pages 



 Footer of the magazine

The footer of a magazine contains all the important information the publisher wants to highlight ensuring that reader's don't miss out and attract their attention. They typically includes page numbers, website, issue date, edition, and logo. Additionally, for multi page articles, the footers may include the heading of the article so that readers can keep a track their progress.


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