What Usually Goes in a Magazine Cover?

The cover is the face of the magazine--it's the very thing that will either capture people's attention or only make the customer glance at your product and go on with their day without thinking twice about it. In order for the cover to catch the eye of the common person, it needs to be perfect.

So, in order to make my cover perfect--or, rather, as perfect as I possibly can--I decided to do some research.

I found that magazines' covers can vary greatly:

Some are completely packed with words full of information, to advertise the stuff that's inside and bring attention to all the colorful letters. Like this, for example:

Other magazines are simplistic and minimalistic, almost entirely for aesthetic purposes, but also to bring attention to their main focus: the person (or people) featured. Like these:

The magazine's titles can also vary, not just the arrangements. Some magazines' titles are completely lower caps, mainly for the aesthetic of it, but also to indicate perhaps elegance, simplicity, softness or all of the above. For example:

Others are in all caps and demand attention:

Others are written the way one would normally write--capitalizing the first letters to signify a proper noun:

Others (the fewer of the bunch) have rather peculiar combinations to indicate the magazine's niche or uniqueness:

There are many other variations to all sorts of covers in which, for example, the title can be at the bottom or vertical or something else. It really entirely up to the creator to decide what to do with their product, and I think I know exactly what I want to do with mine.