This post will be analyzing three magazines' table of contents. I will be comparing the sections of the table of contents for each magazine and discussing the similarities and differences between the three magazines' table of contents.
1) ESPN Serena Williams Edition
Number of images: 1 (split across both pages)
Description of each image: the crowd of people watching Selena win a tennis match against someone else. The crowd spelled "Serena" in the color white. Many photographers are taking photos on the small portion of the tennis court shown.
List of Sections: "Contents"
Number of Articles: 10
Highest Page Number: 76
Articles Font Format: All caps and bold for "Contents" and lowercase bold for article titles and page numbers. The article titles, description of the image and the title of the page is in a san serif text.
Color Palette of Fonts: White (article titles, page #s, and image description)
Stylistic Features: A thin white line separates the article's name to show a separation of two columns from the lists of articles. A description of the signs is on the top right on the right page.
Title of Page: "Contents"
Number of Columns Per Page: 2
2) Steph Curry Sharpshooter Champion Game Changer
Number of images: 1 (split across both pages)
Description of each image: Steph Curry gets yellow and blue confetti thrown at him during the Warriors' 2018 championship parade which about one million people attended.
List of Sections: "Contents"
Number of Articles: 9
Highest Page Number: 86
Articles Font Format: Bold and all caps for chapter number and name of the article. The normal and lowercase font is used in the description under the article name. The title of the articles, title of the image description and the word "contents" is all in a san serif text, while the description of the articles and image description are in serif text.
Color Palette of Fonts: Black (article title, chapter #, and description)
Stylistic Features: Thick black line above "contents" on the top left on the left page. Thick black line above the description on the top right page of the image.
Title of Page: "Contents"
Number of Columns Per Page: 1
3) Special Issue Jordan Centennial Icons
Number of images: 0
Description of each image: no image
List of Sections: "Contents"
Number of Articles: 14
Highest Page Number: 96
Articles Font Format: The article title is in all caps and bold. The description is in normal font (not bold) and lowercase. The article titles, "contents", "Centennial Icons" and "Michael Jordan" on the bottom left of the page, are all in san serif text. The description of the articles are all in serif text.
Color Palette of Fonts: Black (article title and description) and dark red (page numbers), white ("contents" in a black box on top middle page.)
Stylistic Features: "Contents" has white text in a black box.
Title of Page: "Contents"
Number of Columns Per Page: 3
SECTIONS:
None of the magazines I chose have sections.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
The average photo count for the sports genre is just one image.
The type of photos shown in the Table of Contents pages are celebration photos and images of the crowds either celebrating in a big crowd or standing in the stands.
The Steph Curry magazine image is a mid shot, while the Serena Williams magazine image is an extreme long shot showing the section of Serena's fans in the stands.
Since the usual amount of images on the TOC page in a magazine is one, it is usually a big image split across two pages.
FONTS:
In all three magazines, the article titles are written in bold.
In the two magazines that have a description (Steph Curry and Michael Jordan), the font is normal.
The Serena Williams magazine and Steph curry magazine both have the page number in bold
The article title for all three magazines are in san serif font.
The description for the Steph Curry and Michael Jorrdan magazines are in a serif font, but the Serena Williams magazine doesn't have a description.
The page number for the article is in the normal text but in a different color to stand out.
All of the article titles are different sizes. Steph Curry is the smallest, Serena Williams is in the middle, and Michael Jordan has the largest text size of the article names
The image description in the Serena Williams magazine is in bold, while the image description in the Steph Curry magazine is normal except for "Make it Reign" which is in bold above the description.
SERENA WILLIAMS vs JORDAN vs STEPH CURRY
Similarities:
All three magazines had all the articles' titles in bold text
All three magazines have the word "Contents" as the title
The Serena Williams magazine and Steph curry magazine both have one image that is split across both pages
The Steph Curry magazine and Michael Jordan magazine both have a little description under the article title
The Steph Curry Magazine and Serena Williams magazine both have a description on the top right of the right page describing the image split across both pages
The Steph Curry and Michael Jordan magazines both have the name of the person being written about on the bottom of the magazine by the page number.
The page numbers for the articles are above the article title on the Steph Curry magazine and Michael Jordan.
There are more than one column for the article names in the Serena Williams magazine and Steph Curry magazine.
Differences:
The Michael Jordan magazine has no image
The Serena Williams magazine has no description under the article names
The Serena Williams magazine doesn't have her name on the bottom of the magazine page beside the page number
The page numbers for the articles are beside the article title in the Serena Williams magazine.
Only one column for the articles in the Steph Curry magazine.
The Steph Curry magazine was my favorite because it was a very easy table of contents to understand. It included a simple photo, article names with page numbers easily read, and a good simple description. I will be using this table of contents as an inspiration for mine because I would love mine to be easy to read but very helpful.
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