After labeling the technical conventions of the front page of a magazine I am now aware of the expectations of my own magazine cover. Some of these typicalities include:

• Masthead
• Main cover line
• Main cover star
• Cover lines
• Pug
• Plug
• Inset
• Barcode and price
• Issue date

Below is an example of a magazine cover and we have labelled these technical conventions.

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