What is a Lifestyle Magazine?

Definition

According to OCR, a lifestyle magazine is defined as a magazine that focuses on interests and ways of living. They cover areas such as fashion, health and well being, food and drink, homes, travel, trends and popular culture. They also tend to have a wide focus on their contents rather than being overly specialised in one area.

Features

One feature seen on the front cover of lifestyle magazines is large main cover images, typically featuring a person (but this can change depending on what the lifestyle magazine is based around). Other codes and conventions include the company name at the top in a large font, the name of a famous person displayed, informational text and quotes usually at the side out of the way and sometimes vignette on the background. Most lifestyle magazines follow these conventions in order to be identifiable by the audience that are interested in this type of magazine.