Magazine Covers: Love, Chocolate and Red All Over

Hi:) Just like last month, we're looking at our February magazine issues that have already arrived, and wondering what kind of spin the top-selling magazines will put on another annual/predictable theme: Valentine's Day. So far, we've been a little more satisfied by the variety of ways magazines have embraced or stayed away from cupid's holiday, than we were with last month's widely-repeated "New Year, New You" angle on New Year's.

Unsurprising, women's magazines and food & cooking magazines mostly did not resist covers with a Valentine's Day palette and content theme. Like this Martha Stewart Living magazine cover below, Southern Living, Woman's Day and Every Day with Rachael Ray sport pink, red and white colors and a mention of chocolate (yum).


Outside of those categories, Psychology Today as seen below, continue the pink palette and love theme, albeit from a different angle. Travel + Leisure and Maxim magazine also feature a Valentine's Day palette and theme. Although it's a bit of a stretch, we also consider Road & Track magazine's cover, which features a red Ferrari 458 Italia, to be a Valentine's Day-inspired cover. After all, isn't Valentine's Day at least a little about fantasy?

Still, there are a few magazines that embraced the love as a theme, though subtly. The best example for us is Ebony magazine with its feature "Love Stories Revealed: How 8 Couples Keep it Going."

 
And finally, there are those magazines that gave Valentine's Day themes and color palettes the hand like Marie Claire, Natural Health, Instyle and Food Network magazine.

 
What do you think? Do you like Valentine's Day-themed magazines?


Stay tuned. Next month we'll take a look at how fashion magazines cover spring fashion.