Dispatch
A travel agency presented as a newspaper page: masthead, columns and trips set like the day's dispatches from abroad.
Playfair Display · Source Serif 4
Editorial
Newspaper columns and huge headlines
A magazine or newspaper page: huge serif headlines, text columns, column rules, issue numbers, pull quotes and black-and-white photographs.
12 designs
What defines this style
- Typography
- A huge display serif with tight leading for headlines, a text serif set in columns, and a drop cap on the first paragraph.
- Colour
- Off-white newsprint, black ink and one spot colour (usually newspaper red).
- Layout
- A masthead, multiple columns with hairline rules, a strict grid, headlines spanning columns.
- Shapes
- No radii, thick-and-thin rule pairs, boxed information panels.
- Imagery
- Black-and-white or muted photographs with small captions beneath.
- Motion
- Very calm: simple fades only.
- Details
- Date and issue number in the masthead, bylines, page numbers, a news ticker.
- Avoid
- Big colourful buttons, rounded corners, gradients, colourful icons.
12 designs
Issue 07
A design studio as an art magazine: huge headlines, one orange and white space.
Fraunces · Newsreader
Column
A law firm in the language of serious papers: text columns, rules and a dark red.
Newsreader
Review
A dark photography magazine: black-and-white pictures, fine headlines and a touch of red.
Instrument Serif · Inter
Broadsheet
A conference laid out like a broadsheet: an agenda like a news table and a single blue.
Libre Caslon Display · Libre Caslon Text
Folio
A bookshop as a literary review: an elegant Didone, big photos of books with small captions, and the evenings in a quiet list.
Bodoni Moda · Lora
Travelogue
Travel-magazine paper, sea blue and brick red, a cover with a huge headline over a rule, rooms as a numbered list and photos on a wall.
DM Serif Display · Source Serif 4
Supplement
Newsprint white, red and navy, the weekly property supplement: Bodoni headlines and listings in a list like classified ads.
Bodoni Moda · Newsreader
Journal
Journal paper, green and red ink, an academy that writes like an editor: text in columns, courses and steps in lists, prices in a table.
EB Garamond
Cover Story
Paper pink, rose red and gold, the beauty pages of a fine magazine: a Ruqaa headline, perfumes in cards and photos in a grid.
Cormorant Garamond · Inter
Almanac
Clay paper, brown and field green, the farmer's almanac: the seasons in a numbered list, the growing steps like an index and figures in monospace.
Young Serif · Lora
Deep
A warm night, brick coral and sage, a dive centre that reads like a sea journal: a big headline over a rule, courses in a dotted list and a wall of reef photos.
Playfair Display · Source Serif 4