This iconic and well known album of the band Green Day uses very dark and deathly colours such as; black, white and red. This theme relates to the genre of music this band produce which is rock. Also, the main image used in this album cover is a hand holding a heart, which is designed as a grenade. A grenade relates to the theme of war, death, passion, bravery and heart break; supporting the reason why the band used a heart to represent it. Furthermore, the heart could also represent pain, something that could be shown within the featured songs.

The title 'Green Day' is the biggest font shown, making it stand out to the audience and catch their attention. Also, it creates more of an affect as the white writing is ontop of a black background. Black and white are the most common colours to come in pairs, just like 'good'and 'bad'.

The second title 'american idiot', is all in lower case and written in red. Red is a common colour related to blood, danger and love, supporting the heart in the grasp of the hand. This colour has many different meanings depending on how it is interpreted; maybe hiding something.

Such a great album.