Magazine Color Trends: O, The Oprah Magazine

O, The Oprah Magazine, sometimes simply abbreviated to O, is a monthly magazine founded by Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Corporation. It was first published on April 19, 2000. As of June 2004, its average paid circulation was over 2.7 million copies, two thirds by subscription. A South African edition was first published in April 2002; according to the South African Advertising Research Foundation, its average readership was over 300,000.

Since its inception, Oprah had exclusively appeared on the cover of each issue. The first shared cover is her April 2009 issue in which she appears with the First Lady Michelle Obama. The second shared cover is with fellow daytime host Ellen DeGeneres on the December 2009 issue. Four separate covers were shot for this special holiday issue.

Here is a look at the last year of O Magazine covers and their color trends.

Oprah’s Favorite Color?

Green 30.7% | Red 23% | Yellow 15.3%

*Hue occurrence out of a total of 13 covers (both blue & green counted for 1/09)

Covers

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Fiesta_1

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Amarilloso
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Very_Very_Red

Cover images from Magazine Agent

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The Color of a full year’s worth of oprah magazine covers overlaid on top of one another. Image by dentyone.
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Author: evad
David Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years. When he's not neck deep in a rainbow he's loving other things with The Post Family (http://thepostfamily.com/), a Chicago-based art blog, artist collective & gallery.