There is a lot of variation in contents page layouts for my chosen genre. This suggests that there are no real conventions in layout which makes me think that I could possibly choose my own; however, I think I'll try to follow the conventions of one magazine whilst choosing elements of others' that I like. The main and most important convention of a contents page is identifying the page number on which the different features are.
Secondly, there is again a consistent colour theme of red, black, white and sometimes yellow; similar to front cover colour themes.
It's also always stated clearly at the top of the page in big lettering what the page is and what time period it's for. There are normally lists of features with the page number next to each item. The most important features - logically the main image/sell lines - are the largest on the page or at the top of the list of contents.
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