House Styles

 


Hi there ! 

I'm back ! If you've been watching the progression of the blogs, you've been able to see my knowledge expand on magazines, blog creation, canva design and aspects/ hard work when it comes to building these certain items. 

Another aspect that we're tapping into is, house styles. 

House styles everyone may not know what exactly the term means, and I necessarily didn't ever but

house styles are a specific editing types that editors follow within magazine guidelines. If you remember being in grade/secondary school, it's a bit similar to the rules and guidelines you have to use for that, just a bit more precise.

When I speak on precise I mean, the rules on, abbreviations, capital letters, numbers, date formats, citations, spelling and terms of address. Of course it's not an outline on how extreme a magazine can be done within the double spreads, etc. but it's a general statement that it voices their creativity as an author or writer. House styles makes it so that, magazines are differentiated in a sense of writing styles and things of that nature.

Things as simple as pink font color and bold print makes a bigger difference rather than black font italic in a smaller size font. 

Having the dynamic of house styles differentiate in different ways gives the magazine it's own look, style and feel. Reading the same magazines across the board makes audiences not even attracted to buying the book. Having the magazine is also about making it your own. 

For example, with reading a book, all authors generally write books the same, but they write about different things in different ways. And that ladies and gentlemen is how your magazines are so personalized to the certain audience! 

Thank house styles !

Hope this information was helpful, me personally I didn't know too much on this topic of house styles and the rules that came into play with something as specific as coloring of fonts. 

On another note, as always, take whatever information is needed and hope to see you again !



References:

https://www.thoughtco.com/house-style-editing-1690842


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