The colours vary a lot throughout the 3 albums, clearly. Although the font for the band name is the same for their first album ‘All We Know Is Falling’ and their latest one ‘Brand New Eyes’, we don’t see it at all which is interesting but on some of the albums there is a sticker on the CD case which has their name on in the same font as the other two albums.
On the back of the Riot! album, there are a photo of the band, but it’s in black and white with the same cartoon style effect as the font on the front. I think they decided to not have a picture on the front because they didn’t want to take any attention away from the name of the album and what it stands for. Hayley has supposedly said that ‘Riot’ stands for a strong outburst of emotion and that’s what they felt they had with the album – so I don’t think they would want to distract their audience from that. The largest ‘Riot’ is written in orange, and as it is written in orange, this could signify their fire and passion for the album and what they do.
The album art also links with the name of it, I think. Butterflies are very delicate and fragile, but very detailed and all very different. The title Brand New Eyes, could be saying they have a different view of things now and have gone on a journey, like a butterfly does and then they blossom. Again, there is a light background and a yellow colour used, so the colours are similar to the Riot artwork, although the actual images themselves are very different. 
The biggest difference is the All We Know Is Falling album cover, and this could be because it’s their first one. It might seem a bit ‘random’ because it’s a picture of a sofa out in the open, but it was their first album, so maybe as much thought didn’t go into the relevance of it and they were much younger. The huge contrast between this album and the Brand New Eyes album, could be something to do with the fact that they were first with a smaller label, but then signed to a major label, so just because they felt like they have changed as they got older.
Something that does fit with the conventions of the pop/punk genre, is that the band aren’t actually on the front of any of the albums seen, and when conducting the research into the chosen genre, I found that a lot of the album cover I looked at, don’t actually have a picture of the band on the front, so that’s interesting to see.
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