Research - Table of Contents

Table of Contents

    Table of contents pages is important for readers to easily access their desired feature store. The design and functionality of a table of contents page is one that includes page numbers, a clear design, and eligible content. The APA style format is one that is utilized for projects and documents because it's clear and clean in style. But magazines usually try to be more creative and go beyond the “rules” of creativity. There are 4 main concepts utilized by magazine publishers to enhance their table of content pages: 

1. Utilizing colors us a design personality that shows great creative freedom and insight into the magazines house style.

2. Utilizing different fonts and formats are also great when dealing with the table of contents. It provides a unique and appealing take on the traditional style plus it provides magazine character. 

3. Image as content, these are typically seen in cookbooks or art magazines to showcase more of what is to come in the following pages - example products.

4. Aligning contents is a type of table of contents design that features big font titles with images to correspond to them. The design of table of contents usually doesn't have numbers but the order in which they are laid out is the way they are found in the magazine.

Source - google search of table of contents