A colour supplement or colour magazine is a

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

with

full-colour printing Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). Any natural scene or color photograph can be optically and physiologically dissected into three ...

, typically printed on

glossy paper Coated paper (also known as enamel paper, gloss paper, and thin paper) is paper that has been coated by a mixture of materials or a polymer to impart certain qualities to the paper, including weight, surface gloss, smoothness, or reduced ink abso ...

, 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". The success of the ''Sunday Times Magazine'' led to other newspapers, both broadsheet and tabloid, adding their own colour supplements, beginning in 1964 with '' The Daily Telegraph'' and '' The Observer'' colour supplements, the ''Observer Magazine'' and ''Weekend Telegraph'' (later the ''Telegraph Magazine''). The '' Daily Mirror'' started to include a colour supplement in 1969.

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