A Cover should always maintain the same style every month. It must keep the same format and represent your brand. However, it should have some differences to keep it constantly different from your previous issue. One can achieve this by designing a template for your cover. This format can allow for what needs to be the same and what needs to change to be different each time. The issues cover lines might always be the same size and the same font each issue. However, the one that must change every time must be the feature article’s cover line. Usually the feature article’s cover line is stylized or colored to match the article itself. Good things to ask yourself about your cover would be if it attracts any attention (and if it does what is it that does? The image, text, nameplate?) , does it have continuity from issue to issue, and does it contain all the necessary information?

(I just realized I have been a day behind. This is what happens when you pull an all nighter. -Frown/Grin-)

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