Searching online, I have found many different styles of fonts that music magazines both from the West and the East use; here is a mood board:
Whilst looking at the different mastheads of music magazines, I noticed that Western magazines' most-used feature colour is red, proven by the mastheads of Q, Rolling Stone, XXL, NME and so on. The other most popular colour to use is black because of its classic look with examples such as KERRANG!, Vibe, Mojo and DAZED. On the other hand, Eastern-Asian Kpop magazines often go for other softer colours, especially pink shown by Staraz, Kwave and 10asia+Star (and Bromide which changes their masthead's colour depending on the front cover's style and feature colours). However just like Western music magazines, Asian magazines like High Cut and KPOP LIFE also use black for a more classy look that can contrast with softer, lighter images that are common in Kpop magazines.
With the help of this mood board, I have found out that for my Kpop music magazine I can use a unique colour for my masthead and not challege Asian magazine conventions as long as it matches my front cover.
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