Colour supplement

A colour supplement or colour magazine is a magazine with full-colour printing, typically printed on glossy paper, that is packaged with a newspaper. Some colour supplements are Sunday magazines, but may also be included with a daily newspaper.

The Sunday Times Magazine (originally called the Sunday Times Colour Section) was the first colour supplement to be published as a supplement to a British newspaper in 1962, and its arrival "broke the mould of weekend newspaper publishing".[1]

The success of the Sunday Times Magazine led to other newspapers, both broadsheet and tabloid, adding their own colour supplements,[2] beginning in 1964 with The Daily Telegraph and The Observer colour supplements, the Observer Magazine and Weekend Telegraph (later the Telegraph Magazine).[3]

The Daily Mirror started to include a colour supplement in 1969.[4]

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  2. ^ "No 56: First Sunday Times colour supplement". Campaign. March 7, 2013. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
  3. ^ Farmer, Richard (2019-07-03). "Supplemental Income". Media History. 25 (3): 371–386. doi:10.1080/13688804.2018.1481372. ISSN 1368-8804.
  4. ^ "Newspaper Facts You Never Knew". Historic Newspapers. 2014-10-22. Retrieved 2019-12-20.