Design Research - Colour Scheme

Colour schemes are very important in magazines. These are used to set an opinion on different magazines and how the colours are represented with the magazine, for example if a music magazine has light colours it is more than likely to be seen as a type of pop genre than rather a rock genre magazine. I have looked at a lot of different college magazines and looked at the different type of colour schemes used to make magazines seem more appropriate and try to appeal people to look at their magazines related to the types of colours used to attract the audience of mostly teenagers or those who go to college.
 
Varying the use of colours in magazines can be good as it makes it look more attractive and appealing through its use of colour mixture. Having a good scheme means that you can only use a few colours so that the magazine does not got overloaded with colours and is set to a good proportion so it looks professional rather than tacky. The colours should be used to suit the audience the magazine is aimed at, in this cause teenagers are more than luckily to be the main audiences to read college/school magazines and maybe parents to. I have looked at a variety of magazines and a lot of them use the same types of dark colours, with more informal text. Whereas some other magazines have a different, more positive approach with bright colours and a more formal type of layout.

This is some colours I have formed to get a good idea of some colours I could include in my magazine and shows a mixture of colours which could or could not be used.