Table of Contents Research

Different magazines display and format their table of contents page differently depending on font, images, and such. I found three art themed magazines and analyzed them below.

What Women Create: Inspiration for your Imagination

Daphne's Diary

The Colorist: The Art of Colorful Living

All three magazines had fairly similar formates and contents on the table of contents page. Each had the information formatted in columns although the third magazine had the most text and columns and the second magazine with the least.

The photography in each magazine showed closeups on patchwork, cloth work, or any other intricate art to show detail. The images were all in square or rectangle frames and all of the images took a majority of the pages. Either the pictures were placed bigger or there were more displayed. However, the first and third organized the images in a very coordinated way that the second magazine organized them in the format of a collage and scrapbook.

All magazines had simplistic fonts to compliment like serif and san serif and not take away from the main images in the pages. However, the second had a more unique and diverse choice of fonts in the title, text, and captions. Each cover had a style to it where the first and third had a more similar format and tone whereas the second magazine had a very personalized format as though you are looking through someone's scrapbook they made.

My favorite would be the second magazine since it was the different one and was more interesting to look at because of the format and different types of images.